Sunday, January 12, 2020

Beyond, Beyond

I have got such a beautiful edition of Thomas à Kempis. 
How I love that old monk. He caught a wonderful glimpse of the "behind the veil"--few ever got such. 
My, that is religion. No humbug of the world. 
No shilly-shallying, tall talk, conjecture--I presume, I believe, I think. 

How I would like to go out of this piece of painted humbug they call the beautiful world with Thomas à Kempis--beyond, beyond, which can only be felt, never expressed. 

            - Swami Vivekananda, 
                in a Letter to Mrs. G W Hale 
                  from Annisquam, USA (August 1894)

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