Guest guest Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Gitanjali - 73, by Rabindranath TagoreDeliverance is not for me in renunciation.I feel the embrace of freedomin a thousand bonds of delight.Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wineof various colors and fragrance,filling this earthen vessel to the brim.My world will light its hundred different lampswith thy flame and place thembefore the alter of thy temple.No, I will never shut the doors of my senses.The delights of sight and hearing and touchwill bear thy delight.Yes, all my illusionswill burn into illumination of joy,and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.~ Rabindranath Tagore, "Gitanjali," 1952, MacMillan & Co. ~ Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore, Poet-Laureate of India and forerunner of changing the way children are schooled. ((( Inscribed in this volume to the original recipient, (I bought itat a used bookstore) reads like this:"To Mary Anne,I will utter your name, sitting alone among the shadowsof my silent thoughts.I will utter it without words,I will utter it without purpose.For I am like a child that calls its mother a hundred times,glad that it can say, "Mother."Carl" ((( Now the Albert-Arching into Heart-Marking Merriment -- "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein LoveAlways,Mazie Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage – 4 plans to choose from! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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