Rabindranath Tagore | Author – Richard F Holmes

Death Is Simply The Doorway To Another Reality #2

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Posted on June 16, 2014 by Author Richard F Holmes

Here is another beautiful extract from the wonderful piece, Gitanjali, from the equally wonderful Rabindranath Tagore. Hope you enjoy it!

I was not aware of the moment when I first crossed the threshold of this life. What was the power that made me open out into this vast mystery like a bud in the forest at midnight? When in the morning I looked upon the light I felt in a moment that I was no stranger in this world, that the inscrutable without name and form had taken me in its arms in the form of my own mother. Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me, and because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well – Rabindranath Tagore

Death Is Simply The Doorway To Another Reality

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Posted on June 14, 2014 by Author Richard F Holmes

I came across this truly beautiful piece by one of my favourite men of the moment, the wonderful Rabindranath Tagore. It’s a section from one of Tagore’s most famous works, Gitanjali. I hope it inspires you in the same way it inspired me.

I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes. Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains. When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of the moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world with its careless treasures – Rabindranath Tagore

Love Expressed In Words

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Posted on March 1, 2014 by Author Richard F Holmes

I recently came across a beautiful piece of poetry by the wonderful Rabindranath Tagore. It is too long to share in its entirety, but this is the opening verse from his work entitled “Gitanjali”; so utterly profound in its beauty that I could not but share it with my blog followers. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

“Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
The little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loves its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill”.

Rabindranath Tagore

Thought For The Day #145

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Posted on August 25, 2012 by Author Richard F Holmes

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous – Rabindranath Tagore

Thought For The Day #139

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Posted on August 13, 2012 by Author Richard F Holmes

My last post until Monday 20 August as I am working away in Wales for the coming week.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come – Rabindranath Tagore

Thought For The Day #120

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Posted on July 25, 2012 by Author Richard F Holmes

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it – Rabindranath Tagore

Thought For The Day #114

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Posted on July 18, 2012 by Author Richard F Holmes

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it – Rabindranath Tagore

Thought For The Day #109

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Posted on July 13, 2012 by Author Richard F Holmes

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy – Rabindranath Tagore

Thought For The Day #106

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Posted on July 10, 2012 by Author Richard F Holmes

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present – Rabindranath Tagore