We have not the patience to go and work our way out.
For instance, there is a fire in a theatre, and only a few escape. The rest in trying to rush out crush one another down.
That crush was not necessary for the salvation of the building nor of the two or three who escaped.
If all had gone out slowly, not one would have been hurt.
That is the case in life.
The doors are open for us, and we can all get out without the competition and struggle; and yet we struggle. The struggle we create through our own ignorance, through impatience; we are in too great a hurry.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Evolution, Notes from Lectures and Discourses
For instance, there is a fire in a theatre, and only a few escape. The rest in trying to rush out crush one another down.
That crush was not necessary for the salvation of the building nor of the two or three who escaped.
If all had gone out slowly, not one would have been hurt.
That is the case in life.
The doors are open for us, and we can all get out without the competition and struggle; and yet we struggle. The struggle we create through our own ignorance, through impatience; we are in too great a hurry.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Evolution, Notes from Lectures and Discourses
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