Tuesday, October 4, 2011

IT IS THESE OBSTACLES WHICH KNOCK AND SHAPE GREAT CHARACTERS


It gives me great pleasure to learn that Shashi and others are making a stir. We must create a stir, nothing short of this will do. You will be throwing the whole world into convulsion. Victory to the Guru! You know, " — Great undertakings are always fraught with many obstacles." It is these obstacles which knock and shape great characters....

- Swami Vivekananda
25th September, 1894 NEW YORK
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLVII Brother disciples

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