In death the many becomes one; in life the one becomes many. Religion will be one when God is dead.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The light that plays, like a naked child, among the green leaves happily knows not that man can lie.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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One sad voice has its nest among the ruins of the years. It sings to me in the night,--"I loved you."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The world has opened its heart of light in the morning. Come out, my heart, with thy love to meet it.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Swetness of thy name fills my heart when I forget mine--like thy morning sun when the mist is melted.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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"I give my whole water in joy," sings the waterfall, "though little of it is enough for the thirsty."
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The same lotus of our clime blooms here in the alien water with the same sweetness, under another name.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Let them live who choose in their own hissing world of fireworks. My heart longs for thy stars, my God.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Either you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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