Friday, January 3, 2020

Broadening Positively

I have seen many liberal and broad-minded men too in this country, some even in the narrowest churches, but here is the difference -- there is danger with the men to become broad at the cost of religion, at the cost of spirituality -- women broaden out in sympathy to everything that is good everywhere, without losing a bit of their own religion. 

They intuitively know that it is a question of positivity and not negativity, a question of addition and not subtraction. 

                    - Swami Vivekananda, 
                       in a Letter to Maharaja of Khetri 
                         from US (1894)

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