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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

— Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds (1916)

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God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

Gitanjali (1912)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Fireflies (1928)

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The Gardener (1915)

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

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