Rabíndranáth Thákur citáty

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„More neprekonáte tým, že stojíte a dívate sa na vodu.“

„Je veľmi jednoduché byť šťastným, ale je veľmi ťažké byť jednoduchým.“

„Mraky prichádzajú do môjho života plávajúce od iných dní nie preto, aby vylievali dážď alebo prinášali búrku, ale aby dodali farbu môjmu západu slnka.“

„Ak roníte slzy, lebo vám chýba slnko, chýbajú vám aj hviezdy.“

„Stromy sú nekonečnou snahou zeme prihovoriť sa počúvajúcemu nebu.“

„Nepravda si nemôže dovoliť prehrávať. Pravda áno.“

„Ak zamkneš dvere pred všetkými omylmi, zostane za nimi aj pravda.“

„Zavreli sme dvere, aby nevošiel omyl, ale ako má teraz vojsť pravda?“

„Hovoriť pravdu, na to sú potrební dvaja, jeden aby hovoril, druhý aby počúval.“

„Je ľahko byť úprimný, keď nehovoríme celú pravdu.“

„V láske sa rozplynú všetky protivenstvá života.“

„Múdry muž ma varoval, že život je len kvapkou rosy na lotosovom liste.“

„Nech tvoj život tak ľahko tancuje na ostrí času, ako rosa na hrote listu.“

„Život ako celok neprikladá smrti váhu.“

„Usmievaj sa - zvýšiš cenu svojej tváre.“

„Urob priateľskú službu a nadávky ti budú odmenou - to je beh sveta.“

„Existujú len dva spôsoby, ako môžeš narábať s láskou. Nemôžeš ju zakázať, nemôžeš ju vnucovať, nemôžeš ju predať či kúpiť. Ale môžeš ju prijímať a rozdávať.“

„Nesmiete odsudzovať to, čomu nerozumiete.“

„Suchý strom nepatrí do zeleného lesa.“

„Nemám dieťa rád preto, že je poslušné, ale preto, že je to moje dieťa.“

„Nemilujeme, lebo nechápeme. Nechápeme, lebo nemilujeme.“

„Čím je žena cnostnejšia, tým horšie sa s ňou zaobchádza.“

„Kto chce robiť dobro, zaklope na bránu. Kto ľúbi, nájde bránu otvorenú.“

„Ten, kto je príliš zamestnaný tým, že robí dobro, nemá čas na to, aby bol dobrý.“

„Uvoľnenie zo zeme neznamená pre strom slobodu.“

„Dokážem milovať Boha preto, že mi dáva slobodu ho poprieť.“

„Rozumieť niečomu, to znamená nájsť v tom niečo, čo je naše, a práve toto objavovanie seba mimo nás je to, čo nás teší.“

„Každé dieťa prichádza s odkazom, že sme Boha ešte neznechutili.“

„Najbohatší sú tí ľudia, ktorí sa môžu vzdať väčšiny vecí.“

„Drahí moji, viete, že sme smrteľní, je azda rozumné zničiť si srdce pre ženu, ktorá si svoje vzala späť?“

„Ponechajme mŕtvym nesmrteľnosť slávy, ale živým dajme nesmrteľnosť lásky.“

„Najtrvalejšie veci dlho nevydržia.“

„Človek nikdy nemôže vidieť zároveň dve strany gule.“

„Ľahko je byť úprimný, keď nechceme povedať celú pravdu.“

„Lož si nemôže dovoliť porážku, ale pravda áno.“

„Neobetujte slabých silným, ak sa chcete sami zachrániť.“

„Stromy sú nástroje nekonečného úsilia zeme osloviť nebesia.“

„Svet mal rád človeka, kým sa usmieval. Keď človek vybuchol smiechom, svet sa urazil.“

„Sú ľudia, ktorí sa ľahko dostanú do čela a ľudia, ktorí idú poslušne za nimi.“

„Bigotnosť sa snaží pevne držať pravdu v ruke zovretím, ktoré ju zabíja.“

„Čo je ako klenot nesmrteľné, nepyšní sa vekom, ale iskriacim sa okamihom.“

„Zle sme si prečítali svet a hovoríme, že nás klame.“

“My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

“Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.”

“According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.”

“God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.”

“I touch God in my song
as the hill touched the far-away sea
with its waterfall.”

“I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.”

“The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.”

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

“The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts — so many millions of miles further off are we!”

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

“The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.”

“What India has been, the whole world is now. The whole world is becoming one country through scientific facility. And the moment is arriving when you also must find a basis of unity which is not political. If India can offer to the world her solution, it will be a contribution to humanity. There is only one history — the history of Man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one.”

“Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.”

“I saw, all of a sudden, an odd-looking bird making its way through the water to the opposite bank, followed by a great commotion. I found it was a domestic fowl which had managed to escape impending doom in the galley by jumping overboard and was now trying frantically to swim across. It had almost gained the bank when the clutches of its relentless pursuers closed on it, and it was brought back in triumph, gripped by the neck. I told the cook I would not have any meat for dinner. I really must give up animal food. We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us ⎯ in fact, any one who does not join in is dubbed a crank. … if, after our pity is aroused, we persist in throttling our feelings simply in order to join others in their preying upon life, we insult all that is good in us. I have decided to try a vegetarian diet.”

“While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”

“To Indians the idea of the transmigration of the soul from animal to man, and man to animal, does not seem strange, and so from our scriptures pity for all sentient creatures has not been banished as a sentimental exaggeration. When I am in close touch with Nature in the country, the Indian in me asserts itself and I cannot remain coldly indifferent to the abounding joy of life throbbing within the soft down-covered breast of a single tiny bird.”

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

“In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.”

“A very important factor which is making it almost impossible for Hindu-Muslim unity to become an accomplished fact is that the Muslims can not confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked (the Muslims) whether in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they (Muslims) would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbours to defend their common land. I was not satisfied with the reply I got from them… Even such a man as Mr. Mohammad Ali (one of the famous Ali brothers, the leaders of the Khilafat Movement-the compiler) has declared that under no circumstances is it permissible for any Mohammedan, whatever be his country, to stand against any Mohammedan.”

“When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.”

“There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions. That’s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions.”

“Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?”

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

“Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

“Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.”

“In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.”

“Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?”

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

“It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!”