Ocupation: Author
Life: May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941
Birthday: May 7
Death: August 7
Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.
source: Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.104, BookRix
topic: Passing On, Joy, Mind, Vagabonds