إن الحياة ليست سوى قطرة ندى فوق ورقة لوتس".
أينبغي أن أهمل كل هذا لأتطلع إلى من تخلت عني ؟

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إن لم تتكلم ، فسأتحمل ، في الحق ، صمتك ، وسأملأ
به قلبي .
سأنتظر ساكناً ، في الليلة المتلاحمة النجوم ، ورأسي
حانٍ مطرق .
سيقبل الفجر ، بلا ريب ، وستنقشع الظلمة ،
وسيسيل صوتك في رعشات مذهبة تنسرب عبر السماء .
حينذاك ، ستتّسق كلماتك في أغنيات حول أي عش
من أعشاشي وتتشقّق أغنياتك زهوراً في جميع منعطفات
غاباتي.

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My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

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It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mots clés politics values western-civilization tradition east-and-west

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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.

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Mots clés pain danger perseverance fearlessness

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Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

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Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

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for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

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The Child Angel

Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, my child,

unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence.

They are cruel in their greed and their envy,

their words are like hidden knives thirsting for blood.

Go and stand amidst their scowling hearts, my child,

and let your gentle eyes fall upon them like the

forgiving peace of the evening over the strife of the day.

Let them see your face, my child, and thus know the

meaning of all things, let them love you and love each other.

Come and take your seat in the bosom of the limitless, my child.

At sunrise open and raise your heart like a blossoming flower,

and at sunset bend your head and in silence

complete the worship of the day.

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