2 quotations linked to Fruit-Gathering by or associated with Rabindranath Tagore, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Courage, freedom, patience, spiritual purpose, mortality, service, struggle and the attempt to meet danger without asking for guaranteed safety.
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“hope for the patience to win my freedom.”
Freedom is paired with patient hope rather than anxious rescue, suggesting that endurance and inner steadiness are part of the desired liberation.
Source note: Fruit-Gathering, poem LXXIX; Project Gutenberg #6522. This excerpt completes a prayer against anxious craving to be saved and retains that spiritual context.
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.”
The prayer asks not for the removal of danger but for courage within it, shifting the desired response from guaranteed safety toward steadiness under difficulty.
Source note: Fruit-Gathering, poem LXXIX, translated by Tagore from Bengali; Project Gutenberg #6522. The line is explicitly prayer language and should not be read as advice to ignore real safety precautions.