Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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