Reading Archives (Author)
"I"

Rabindranath Tagore

The color of my consciousness made the emerald green, and the ruby red. I gazed at the sky, and the light dazzled in the east and the...

Opening Thy Palm

Rabindranath Tagore

I had gone a-begging from door to door in the village path when thy golden chariot appeared in the distance like a gorgeous dream and I...

Beauty Harmonizes Law and Liberty

Rabindranath Tagore

A great poem, when analyzed, is a set of detached sounds. The reader who finds out the meaning, which is the inner medium that connects...

Freedom Manifests in Action

Rabindranath Tagore

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be. In that actualisation,...

An Undying Faith of the Infinite in Us

Rabindranath Tagore

When we watch a child trying to walk, we see its countless failures; its successes are but few.  If we had to limit our observation...

What is Goodness?

Rabindranath Tagore

The question will be asked, "What is goodness?  What does our moral nature mean?"  My answer is that when a man...

Centuries of Culture

Rabindranath Tagore

Once there was an occasion for me to motor down to Calcutta from a place a hundred miles away. Something wrong with the mechanism made it...

The Message

Rabindranath Tagore

I see a light, but no fire. Is this what my life is to be like? Better to head for the grave. A messenger comes, the...