Friday, November 8, 2019

Goldness of Gold

“Silver and gold", …, "have I none; but such as I have give I thee" freely, and 
that is the knowledge that the goldness of gold, 
the silverness of silver, the manhood of man, 
the womanhood of woman, 
the reality of everything is the Lord -- and 
that this Lord we are trying to realise from time without beginning in the objective, and in the attempt throwing up such "queer" creatures of our fancy as man, woman, child, body, mind, the earth, sun, moon, stars, the world, love, hate, property, wealth, etc.; also ghosts, devils, angels and gods, God etc. 

                   - Swami Vivekananda, 
                        in a Letter to Mary Hale 
                          from London (November 1896)

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