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
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
Interpretation
Life is a celebration, and recognizing the blessings in our existence enhances our experience.
Rabindranath Tagore's quote suggests that life is a grand festival filled with opportunities and experiences that we are invited to embrace. By recognizing and celebrating the blessings we have, we cultivate a deeper appreciation for life itself, encouraging us to engage fully with the world around us and to find joy in everyday moments.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire students to appreciate their journey.
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.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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