Organisation has its faults, no doubt, but without that nothing can be done. And here, I am afraid, I will have to differ from you — that no one ever succeeded in keeping society in good humour and at the same time did great works. One must work as the dictate comes from within, and... then if it is light and good, society is bound to veer round, perhaps centuries after one is dead and gone. We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we be ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the light.
- Swami Vivekananda
54 W. 33rd ST., NEW YORK, 21st March, 1895. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LXI Mrs. Bull
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