globaltheology

Inspiration

This poem by Tagore may not have been intended for a global theology unit but it incorporates all the qualities needed for the global theologian's contribution to world peace. Just replace 'domestic' with 'religious', 'my country' with 'myself' and all becomes clear!

 

Where The Mind is Without Fear
~ Rabindranath Tagore

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

 

 

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