Sit still, my heart. Let the world find its way to you.

What it means

Chasing and striving kick up dust that hides what you are looking for. Settle down and things come to you. Some doors open only when you stop pushing.

The source

"Sit still, my heart. Let the world find its way to you." Rabindranath Tagore said it in Stray Birds 190 (1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

"Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. Let the world find its way to you."

Rabindranath Tagore, 1916, Stray Birds 190 (1916). Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Bengali poet, composer and teacher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He rendered his own short poems into English in Gitanjali and Stray Birds.

Questions

What does "Sit still, my heart. Let the world find its way to you." mean?

Chasing and striving kick up dust that hides what you are looking for. Settle down and things come to you. Some doors open only when you stop pushing.

Who said "Sit still, my heart. Let the world find its way to you."?

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Source: Stray Birds 190 (1916).

What is the original wording?

Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. Let the world find its way to you (Rabindranath Tagore, 1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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