I would ask mankind to recognize this maxim, "Do not destroy".
Iconoclastic reformers do no good to the world.
Break not, pull not anything down, but build.
Help, if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help. Say not a word against any man's convictions so far as they are sincere.
Secondly, take man where he stands, and from there give him a lift. If it be true that God is the center of all religions, and that each of us is moving towards Him along one of these radii, then it is certain that all of us must reach that center.
And at the center, where all the radii meet, all our differences will cease; but until we reach there, differences there must be. All these radii converge to the same center.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Pasadena, California
Iconoclastic reformers do no good to the world.
Break not, pull not anything down, but build.
Help, if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help. Say not a word against any man's convictions so far as they are sincere.
Secondly, take man where he stands, and from there give him a lift. If it be true that God is the center of all religions, and that each of us is moving towards Him along one of these radii, then it is certain that all of us must reach that center.
And at the center, where all the radii meet, all our differences will cease; but until we reach there, differences there must be. All these radii converge to the same center.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk in Pasadena, California
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