Young men on way to political rally in Rajastan, India.
Let the news increasingly be the arm of the people,
and let it belong to the people—and not to sanctify
the ambitions and limitations of a few.
Let it furnish the people with unending information.
Let it be an educational means toward healthier,
happier, and more well-balanced goals.
Let it help man to formulate more comprehensively,
in the most wholesome sense, his mode of life.
Knowledge in and for itself has little value.
Fuel without a spark ignites no fire.
Knowledge without action and vital intention
changes nothing. The most valuable wisdom
or knowledge is that which at some point is put
into action.
Wisdom then becomes incarnate.
Education that does not teach
redemption from individual and mass tyranny,
economic or otherwise,
but that silently and snugly
accepts its gratuity
and confirms its reign
is worse than no education at all.
Truth has no prescribed means of approach.
It grows out of the realities with which it co-exists.
In the midst of some dereliction,
some defeat, some vast contradiction,
a tangible truth can be in the making.
In the midst of some vast turmoil,
there is always the seed of some great awakening.
Men can communicate best
if they feel a consciousness
of each other’s
infinite nature
and know
that access to the other
will always be incomplete.
Far Beyond Words 