In India we think -- but unfortunately sometimes we think so deeply that there is no power left for expression.
Gradually, therefore, it came to pass that our force of expression did not manifest itself before the world, and what is the result of that?
The result is this -- we worked to hide everything we had.
It began first with individuals as a faculty of hiding, and it ended by becoming a national habit of hiding -- there is such a lack of expression with us that we are now considered a dead nation. Without expression, how can we live?
The backbone of Western civilization is -- expansion and expression.
- Swami Vivekananda,
At Calcutta (11th March 1898),
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
Gradually, therefore, it came to pass that our force of expression did not manifest itself before the world, and what is the result of that?
The result is this -- we worked to hide everything we had.
It began first with individuals as a faculty of hiding, and it ended by becoming a national habit of hiding -- there is such a lack of expression with us that we are now considered a dead nation. Without expression, how can we live?
The backbone of Western civilization is -- expansion and expression.
- Swami Vivekananda,
At Calcutta (11th March 1898),
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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