Thursday, December 12, 2019

Evanescent Dream

The more the shades around deepen, the more the ends approach and the more one understands the true meaning of life, that it is a dream; 
and we begin to understand the failure of everyone to grasp it, for they only attempted to get meaning out of the meaningless. 

To get reality out of a dream is boyish enthusiasm.

"Everything is evanescent, everything is changeful"-- knowing this, the sage gives up both pleasure and pain and becomes a witness of this panorama (the universe) without attaching himself to anything. 

                       - Swami Vivekananda, 
                           in a Letter to Mary Hale 
                            from Thousand Island Park (June 1895)


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