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Following the Equator (1897)
Variant: To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
“The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?”
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 66-67]
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Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853–1920Related quotes
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Context: Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;
Everything is happy now,
Everything is upward striving;
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,—
'Tis the natural way of living:
Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake;
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache;
The soul partakes the season's youth,
And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe
Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth,
Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.
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[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 220-221]
“how can you be true and
kind at the same
time?
how?”
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Context: Everyone's childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don't know if I'm just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another's earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.
