Where the mind is without fear...
Where knowledge is free...
Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls...
Where words come out from the depths of Truth...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit...
Where the mind is led forward...
into ever-widening [inclusive] thought and action...
Let my country [the world] awake...
Where knowledge is free...
Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls...
Where words come out from the depths of Truth...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit...
Where the mind is led forward...
into ever-widening [inclusive] thought and action...
Let my country [the world] awake...
Excerpt from Verse 35 of the Gitanjali
by Rabindranath Tagore
by Rabindranath Tagore
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Only the inspired should make decisions
that effect the lives of many,
never a man who has not held God in his arms
and become the servant of unity...
that effect the lives of many,
never a man who has not held God in his arms
and become the servant of unity...
St. Teresa of Avila
(1515-1582)
(1515-1582)
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