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
Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Silence allows for self-reflection and a clearer understanding of personal values amidst life's chaos.
Rabindranath Tagore emphasizes the significance of silence as a means to connect with one's inner self. In the hustle and bustle of city life, individuals often lose sight of what truly matters, which are the feelings and resources found within one's heart. By taking time for introspection, we can regain our perspective and prioritize what is genuinely important to us.
Themes
SilenceReflectionPerspectiveHeartResources
In practice
Example use cases
In a mindfulness workshop, someone might share this quote to emphasize the importance of taking time for silence.
More from Rabindranath Tagore
All quotes βMusic fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
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.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
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.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
Similar quotes
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
SophoclesRead
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha GrahamRead
People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.
Tom RobbinsRead
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.
Niccolo MachiavelliRead
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
Carrie FisherRead