Where The Mind is Without Fear

Rabindranath Tagore

 

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is freedom.

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depths 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 me awake
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let us all awake.

 

from Rabindranath Tagore's Geetanjali

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