"When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

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“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.”
“At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.”
“When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.”
“Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.”
“First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.”
“You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”
“Having a powerful enough WHY will provide you with the necessary HOW”
“I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.”

Source : "RJ Hollingdale" by Carol Diethe, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2001.

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