DISEASE AND MISFORTUNE COME TO DO US GOOD IN THE LONG RUN

I am much better and am growing very strong. I feel sometimes that freedom is near at hand, and the tortures of the last two years have been great lessons in many ways. Disease and misfortune come to do us good in the long run, although at the time we feel that we are submerged for ever.

I am the infinite blue sky; the clouds may gather over me, but I am the same infinite blue.

- Swami Vivekananda
25th March, 1900. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/CLVI Nivedita