Comments on: The Stream of Life http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2008/11/the-stream-of-life/ Nourishment and inspiration for those who love the Earth Fri, 18 May 2012 22:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: April http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2008/11/the-stream-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-536 April Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:12:23 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=187#comment-536 Thank you so much, John, for sharing this poem by Tagore, and for giving us more information about him. Thank you so much, John, for sharing this poem by Tagore, and for giving us more information about him.

]]> By: John Cochrane http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2008/11/the-stream-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-535 John Cochrane Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:07:05 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=187#comment-535 Hi April, Thank you for this piece. Poet, Musician,composer, Scholar, founded a school, Nobel Prize Winner 1913, and in our times I think we might call him an activist, Rabindranath Tagore has a poem in the Gitanjali which has been translated into Englishand speaks as well to us today as it did nearly 100 years ago. ___________________________________________________________________________ Mind Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. ___________________________________________________________________________ Those who wish can google to the Nobel site and refer to Tagore 1913 which gives a good summary of his life and work. John Hi April,
Thank you for this piece. Poet, Musician,composer, Scholar, founded a school, Nobel Prize Winner 1913, and in our times I think we might call him an activist, Rabindranath Tagore has a poem in the Gitanjali which has been translated into Englishand speaks as well to us today as it did nearly 100 years ago.
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Mind Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up

into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason

has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

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Those who wish can google to the Nobel site and refer to Tagore 1913 which gives a good summary of his life and work.

John

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