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True happiness is not at all expensive. It depends upon that natural spring of beauty and of life, harmony of relationship
“Ours is a society in which, through its tyrannical standard of respectability, all the members are goading each other to spoil themselves to the utmost limit of their capacity. There is a continual screwing up of the ideal level of convenience and comfort, the increase in which is proportionately less than the energy it consumes. […]
True happiness is not at all expensive. It depends upon that natural spring of beauty and of life, harmony of relationship. Ambition pursues its own path of self-seeking by breaking this bond of harmony, digging gaps, creating dissension. Selfish ambition feels no hesitation in trampling under foot the whole harvest field, which is for all, in order to snatch away in haste that portion which it craves. Being wasteful it remains disruptive of social life and the greatest enemy of civilisation.“
Rabindranath Tagore in “Robbery of the soil” (included in Poet And Plowman by Leonard Elmhirst (Visva-Bharati University, Calcutta 1975), pp. 34 & 36