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41 " SORROW is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , Stray Birds
42 " I Cannot keep your waves," says the bank to the river."Let me keep your footprints in my heart. "
43 " GOD finds himself by creating. "
44 " EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief. 172 "
45 " Once we dreamt that we were strangers.We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. "
46 " I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence.It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers. "
47 " Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled sound of the sea among these listening pines. "
48 " WE, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent?" "I am a mere flower. "
49 " This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen in the day. "
50 " I CANNOT tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers. "
51 " The road is lonely in its crowd for it is not loved. "
52 " The raindrop whispered to the jasmine, "Keep me in your heart for ever."The jasmine sighed, "Alas," and dropped to the ground. "
53 " Thou hast led me through my crowded travels of the day to my evening's loneliness.I wait for its meaning through the stillness of the night. "
54 " The life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship.In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds. "
55 " الإنسان الديِّن حقًّا وديع لأنه يعي حقَّ الله في الحبِّ على حياته وروحه، في حين أن الطائفي وقح لأنه واثق من حقِّه في امتلاك الله. يصير الغرض الذي نمتلكه أصغر منَّا، والطائفي المتعصِّب، من غير ما حاجة إلى الإقرار في كلمات كثيرة، يعتقد ضمنًا أن بالإمكان احتجاز الله، من أجل عدد من الأفراد، في عهدة قفص من صنعهم. على نحو مشابه، كان أقوام البشر البدائيون يعتقدون أن لطقوسهم تأثيرًا سحريًّا على آلهتهم. الطائفية شكل منحرف من الدنيوية يتستر بالدين، وهو يضيِّق من سعة القلب بقدر أكبر مما يمكن لعبادة العالم على أساس المصلحة المادية أن تفعل يومًا؛ إذ إن السلامة في السعي الصريح في سبيل المصلحة الأنانية تكمن في افتضاحه، كالقاذورات المكشوفة للشمس والهواء. أما تعظيم الذات الذي يمضي من غير وازع تحت غطاء الطائفية، مع ما ينجم عنه من تصغير لله، فيفقد حظَّه في النجاة لأنه يدنِّس مصدر النقاء بالذات. "
56 " I live in this little world of mine and am afraid to make it the least less. Lift me into thy world and let me have the freedom gladly to lose my all. "
57 " IN the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun."I leave my answers in tears upon the grass. "
58 " One sad voice has its nest among the ruins of the years.It sings to me in the night,--"I loved you. "
59 " The world has opened its heart of light in the morning.Come out, my heart, with thy love to meet it. "
60 " LOVE! when you come with the burning lamp of pain in your hand, I can see your face and know you as bliss. "