The work of ethics has been, and will be in the future, not
the destruction of variation and the establishment of sameness in the external
world --
which is impossible for it would bring death and annihilation --
but to recognize the unity in spite of all these variations,
to recognize the God within, in spite of everything that frightens us, to recognize that infinite strength as the property of everyone in spite of all apparent weakness, and
to recognize the eternal, infinite, essential purity of the soul in spite of everything to the contrary that appears on the surface.
This we have to recognize.
which is impossible for it would bring death and annihilation --
but to recognize the unity in spite of all these variations,
to recognize the God within, in spite of everything that frightens us, to recognize that infinite strength as the property of everyone in spite of all apparent weakness, and
to recognize the eternal, infinite, essential purity of the soul in spite of everything to the contrary that appears on the surface.
This we have to recognize.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in London
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