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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: veritably "in it but not of it."
At times his loneliness weighed upon him, as
when he wrote: "You would find it difficult to
imagine how isolated I am, to what an extent my
true self is despised by those who surround me."
But he must, none the less, have realised, as all
prophets and seers have done, that solitariness
of soul and freedom from the petty complexities
of social life are necessary to the mystic whose
constant endeavour is to simplify and to winnow,
the transient from the eternal.
The Forged Coupon |
