Rabíndranáth Thákur citáty

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46 nadčasových myšlenek o štěstí, víře a kráse života

„Pokud pláčete, protože slunce odešlo z vašeho života, vaše slzy vám budou bránit ve spatření hvězd.“

„Je velmi jednoduché být šťastný, ale je velmi těžké být jednoduchý.“

„Pokud roníš slzy, když ti chybí slunce, přicházíš i o hvězdy.“

„Stromy jsou nekonečnou snahou země promlouvat k naslouchajícímu nebi.“

„Moře nemůžete překonat pouze tím, že budete stát a dívat se na vodu.“

„Lehké je být upřímný, když neříkáme celou pravdu.“

„Když zamkneš dveře před všemi omyly, zůstane za nimi pravda.“

„Uzavřel jsem před omylem dveře svojí duše. Pravda řekla: „Jakpak já teď dovnitř dostanu se?““

„Lehko je být otevřený, když nechceme říci celou pravdu.“

„Zavřeli jsme dveře, aby nevešel omyl, ale jak má teď vejít pravda?“

„Smrt není zánikem světla; je zhašením lampy, protože svítá.“

„Život jako celek nepřikládá smrti váhu.“

„Co je jako klenot nesmrtelné, nepyšní se věkem, ale jiskřícím se okamžikem.“

„Drazí moji, víte že jsme nesmrtelní. Je tedy rozumné zničit si srdce pro ženu, která si to svoje vzala spět?“

„Nechť se nemodlím za úkryt před nebezpečím, ale za to, abych byl beze strachu, když nebezpečí přijde. Nechť neprosím o utišení mé bolesti, ale o srdce díky kterému bych ji zdolal.“

„Nejbohatší jsou ti lidé, kteří se většiny věcí mohou vzdát.“

„V tmavých jeskyních našich myslí sny stavějí svá hnízda z pozůstatků dne.“

„Víra je ptáče, které zpívá, ještě když je noc temná.“

„Kéž tě má láska jako sluneční paprsek obejme a přitom ti zanechá osvícenou svobodu.“

„Prvé kroky - vždy nejtěžší.“

„Rozumět něčemu, to znamená nalézt v tom něco, co je naše, a právě toto objevování sebe mimo nás je to, co nás těší.“

„Jako jedinec jsem zcela jedinečný, odlišný ode všeho, s ničím nesrovnatelný. Ani veškerá hmota vesmíru není sto rozdrtit mou individualitu.“

„Porozumět člověku, to chvilku trvá.“

„Svoboda je vše, čeho si žádám, ale doufati v ni se hanbím.“

„Spal jsem a snil, že život je radost. Probudil jsem se a spatřil, že život je povinnost. Plnil jsem ji a pochopil, že povinnost je radost.“

„Neobětujme slabé silným, chceme-li se sami zachránit.“

„Kněžka paměť ubíjí přítomnost a obětuje její srdce svatyni mrtvé minulosti.“

„Suchý strom není na místě v zeleném lese.“

„Člověk je tvor slabý.“

„Je to hra dávání a zdržování, odhalování a opětovného zakrývání; trocha vyzývavosti, trocha ostýchání, a trocha sladkého, snadno překonatelného odporu.“

„Stud je známkou slabé povahy.“

„Pokud člověk zůstává v mezích konvence, nevzbudí příležitost k poznámkám.“

„Chci uchopit krásu, uniká mi, zanechávajíc jen tělo v rukou mých…“

„Obloha rdí se jitrem a já novou, dosud nepoznanou cestu vidím před sebou.“

„To je běh světa — pokus se prokázat přátelskou službu a hubování je ti odměnou.“

„Lidé nemají rádi žertu, když je v něm trocha pravdy.“

„Čím je žena ctnostnější, tím hůř se s ní zachází.“

„Člověk nikdy nemůže vidět dvě strany koule zároveň.“

„Nesmíte honem odsuzovat, čemu nerozumíte.“

„Nejtrvalejší věci dlouho nevydrží.“

„Radost je jednota naší duše, jednota naší duše se světem.“

„Špatně čteme svět a říkáme, že nás klame.“

“In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.”

“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”

“The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.”

“God finds himself by creating.”

“To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”

“Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation
into a harmony with the whole.”

“Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.”

“One of the many suppressed longings of creation which cry after fulfilment is for neglected joys within reach; while we are busy pursuing chimerical impossibilities we famish our lives…The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers.”

“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

“Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”

“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.”

“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”

“Does not the voice come to us, through the din of war, the shrieks of hatred, the wailings of despair, through the churning up of the unspeakable filth which has been accumulating for ages in the bottom of this nationalism, - the voice which cries to our soul that the tower of national selfishness, which goes by the name of patriotism, which has raised its banner of treason against heaven, must totter and fall with a crash, weighed down by its own bulk, its flag kissing the dust, its light extinguished? My brothers, when the red light of conflagration sends up its crackle of laughter to the stars, keep your faith upon those stars and not upon the fire of destruction.”

“That which transcends country, which is greater than country, can only reveal itself through one’s country. God has manifested his one eternal nature in just such a variety of forms… I can assure you that through the open sky of India you will be able to see the sun therefore there is no need to cross the ocean and sit at the window of a Christian church. … “I have nothing more to say,” answered Gora, “only this much I would add. You must understand that the Hindu religion takes in its lap, like a mother, people of different ideas and opinions, in other words, the Hindu religion looks upon man as man and does not count him as belonging to a particular party. It honours not only the wise but the foolish also and it shows respect not merely to one form of wisdom but to wisdom in all its aspects. Christians do not want to acknowledge diversity; they say that on one side is Christian religion and on the other eternal destruction, and between these two there is no middle path. And because we have studied under these Christians we have become ashamed of the variety that is there in Hinduism. We fail to see that through this diversity Hinduism is coming to realise the oneness of all. Unless we can free ourselves from this whirlpool of Christian teaching we shall not become fit for the glorious truths of Hindu religion.””

“When two-three different religions claim that only their own religions are true and all other religions are false, their religions are only ways to Heaven, conflicts can not be avoided. Thus, fundamentalism tries to abolish all other religions. This is called Bolshevism in religion. Only the path shown by the Hinduism can relieve the world form this meanness.”

“God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.”

“The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.”

“Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.”

“Jewel-Like the immortal
does not boast of its length of years
but of the scintillating point of the moment.”

“All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit — the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.”

“Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.”

“Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.”

“Light finds her treasure of colours
through the antagonism of clouds.”

“Whenever a Muslim called upon the Muslim society, he never faced any resistance-he called in the name of one God ‘Allah-ho-Akbar’. On the other hand, when we (Hindus) call will call, ‘come on, Hindus’, who will respond? We, the Hindus, are divided in numerous small communities, many barriers-provincialism-who will respond overcoming all these obstacles? “We suffered from many dangers, but we could never be united. When Mohammed Ghouri brought the first blow from outside, the Hindus could not be united, even in the those days of imminent danger. When the Muslims started to demolish the temples one after another, and to break the idols of Gods and Goddesses, the Hindus fought and died in small units, but they could not be united. It has been provided that we were killed in different ages due to out discord. Weakness harbors sin. So, if the Muslims beat us and we, the Hindus, tolerate this without resistance-then, we will know that it is made possible only by our weakness. For the sake of ourselves and our neighbour Muslims also, we have to discard our weakness. We can appeal to our neighbour Muslims, `Please don't be cruel to us. No religion can be based on genocide' - but this kind of appeal is nothing, but the weeping of the weak person. When the low pressure is created in the air, storm comes spontaneously; nobody can stop it for sake for religion. Similarly, if weakness is cherished and be allowed to exist, torture comes automatically - nobody can stop it. Possibly, the Hindus and the Muslims can make a fake friendship to each other for a while, but that cannot last forever. As long as you don’t purify the soil, which grows only thorny shrubs you can not expect any fruit.”

“The one without second is emptiness,
the other one makes it true.”

“I cannot but bring to your mind those days when the whole of Eastern Asia, from Burma to Japan was united with India in the closest ties of friendship…”