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“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“We live in the world when we love it.”
“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“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.”
“I have become my own version of an optimist. 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.”
“My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you," he replied.”
“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.”
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”
“Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.”
“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”
“Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can't be satisfiedshall take a look at the world in broad daylight.”