Saturday, September 11, 2010

Prayer of Hope

On this day of remembering, may these words of a Bengali poet inspire us to stretch out our hands in friendship and peace.

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 toward 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

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