“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”
Source: Watchmen
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James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (27 July 1935)
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Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II
Context: p>If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming
Can touch life's height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
That to turn from love is the world's one treason
That darkens all the suns.</p
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago