The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that true understanding and appreciation of life and the universe can be found even in a small setting.
In this quote, Rabindranath Tagore emphasizes the idea that the vastness of the universe and the richness of life can be comprehended and appreciated even within a limited physical space. It highlights the notion that one does not need to travel great distances or seek external experiences to gain insight; rather, profound truth and beauty can be discovered in everyday environments and moments, reminding us to be present and aware of our surroundings.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of mindfulness and being present.
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.
Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.
In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.
Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
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