According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.
Rabindranath TagoreIt is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.
Rabindranath TagoreThe flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath TagoreWith begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore