I am wearied of lecturing and all that nonsense.
This mixing with hundreds of varieties of the human animal has disturbed me.
I will tell you what is to my taste; I cannot write, and I cannot speak, but I can think deeply, and when I am heated, can speak fire.
It should be, however, to a select, a very select -- few.
Let them, if they will, carry and scatter my ideas broadcast -- not I. This is only a just division of labour.
The same man never succeeded both in thinking and in scattering his thoughts. A man should be free to think, especially spiritual thoughts.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Hale Sisters
from Detroit (March 1894)
This mixing with hundreds of varieties of the human animal has disturbed me.
I will tell you what is to my taste; I cannot write, and I cannot speak, but I can think deeply, and when I am heated, can speak fire.
It should be, however, to a select, a very select -- few.
Let them, if they will, carry and scatter my ideas broadcast -- not I. This is only a just division of labour.
The same man never succeeded both in thinking and in scattering his thoughts. A man should be free to think, especially spiritual thoughts.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Hale Sisters
from Detroit (March 1894)
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