One Journey of Freedom

Heaven of Freedom

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 reasons 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.

(By Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Freedom from Fear

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

(By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi)

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