Creative Unity

“The highest mission of education is to help us to realise the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and all the activities of our social and spiritual being.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“In love we find a joy which is ultimate because it is the ultimate truth.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding. For where we do not understand, we can never be just. Being””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“It has been said that a disease becomes most acutely critical when the brain is affected. For it is the brain that is constantly directing the siege against all disease forces. The spirit of national selfishness is that brain disease of a people which shows itself in red eyes and clenched fists, in violence of talk and movements, all the while shattering its natural restorative powers. But the power of self-sacrifice, together with the moral faculty of sympathy and co-operation, is the guiding spirit of social vitality.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“In fact, man has been able to make his pursuit of power easier to-day by his art of mitigating the obstructive forces that came from the higher region of his humanity.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

“This One in me knows the universe of the many. But, in whatever it knows, it knows the One in different aspects. It knows this room only because this room is One to it, in spite of the seeming contradiction of the endless facts contained in the single fact of the room. Its knowledge of a tree is the knowledge of a unity, which appears in the aspect of a tree.This One in me is creative. Its creations are a pastime, through which it gives expression to an ideal of unity in its endless show of variety. Such are its pictures, poems, music, in which it finds joy only because they reveal the perfect forms of an inherent unity.””

— Rabindranath Tagore