Rabindranath Tagore
In the silence today, did I listen to the smallest voice within me?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Tagore called colonized Korea "the lamp of the East." What he saw was not a small nation trampled by great powers, but a people with the capacity to relight the lamp. This one sentence proves that the poet's eye sees farther than the politician's. Reading Tagore, a vast world is held within a single small blossom. We miss the small things every day, chasing the big ones. But the one thing he taught all his life — that within the smallest lies the greatest — reaches across the ages and asks us, again, to light the lamp.
"In the golden age of Asia / Korea was one of its lamp-bearers / And that lamp is waiting to be lighted once again / For the illumination of the East."Rabindranath Tagore, The Lamp of the East (1929)
🌱Apply It Today
Today, sit still for just five minutes with no music and no video. At first it feels uncomfortable. But once that discomfort passes, you hear a single line of poetry within you that you usually cannot hear.
