Where the mind is without fear.

byE-novate

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9 years ago

I've been struggling a bit with moving on with my blogging over the last 3 to 4 weeks here at WA. Today as I was going through some of the blogs, I realised that I was not alone in this and that I already have what it takes right within me. I didn't need to go looking for a spark that would trigger off something within me. This got me thinking and I remembered a poem I had read when I was a teenager by Rabindranath Tagore. I think this poem describes what WA is to so many of us in this community, a place where you and I can be ourselves without any fear or apprehension. I admire the community here which is ready to help anyone without any strings attached. Here's the poem for you:

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

i trust you will find encouragement from these lines as you stride towards success in your personal goals. I hope and pray we can experience this freedom and thrive in it.

Sam