Saturday, October 30, 2010

A vison of the future - Where The Mind is Without Fear

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Picture from The Fall, a film by Tarsem Singh

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

This poem is from Gitanjali, lit. Offering of Songs, published in English in
1910.

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