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
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Interpretation
Each day is a new beginning, and we should embrace it with fresh perspective.
Rabindranath Tagore emphasizes the importance of treating each new day as a unique opportunity rather than just a continuation of past experiences. By viewing the morning like a newborn child, free from labels or preconceptions, we can appreciate its potential and approach life with renewed enthusiasm and openness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change.
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.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
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