Rabindranath Tagore Quote – “The Formless is in the midst…”

The Formless is in the midst of all forms. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)

Living Book, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941), The Sacred

Rabindranath Tagore Quote – “The infinite seeks the intimate presence of the finite…”

The infinite seeks the intimate presence of the finite, the finite to disappear in the infinite. I do not know whose scheme this is, that the bound should be on a search for freedom, freedom asking to be housed in the bound. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)

Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind, from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;
Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate,
O’erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate,
Where wav’ring man, betray’d by vent’rous pride
To tread the dreary paths without a guide,
As treach’rous phantoms in the mist delude,
Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good.
How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,
Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice,
How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress’d,
When vengeance listens to the fool’s request.
Fate wings with ev’ry wish th’ afflictive dart,
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,
With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,
With fatal sweetness elocution flows,
Impeachment stops the speaker’s pow’rful breath,
And restless fire precipitates on death.

Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), Excerpted from The Vanity of Human Wishes

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)

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