Objective society will always be a mixture of good and evil -- objective life will always be followed by its shadow, death, and the longer the life, the longer will also be the shadow.
It is only when the sun is on our own head that there is no shadow. When God and good and everything else is in us, there is no evil.
In objective life, however, every bullet has its billet -- evil goes with every good as its shadow. Every improvement is coupled with an equal degradation. The reason being that good and evil are not two things but one, the difference being only in manifestation -- one of degree, not kind.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
It is only when the sun is on our own head that there is no shadow. When God and good and everything else is in us, there is no evil.
In objective life, however, every bullet has its billet -- evil goes with every good as its shadow. Every improvement is coupled with an equal degradation. The reason being that good and evil are not two things but one, the difference being only in manifestation -- one of degree, not kind.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Mary Hale
from London (November 1896)
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