Quote#Self
Yet is he able ever to bend down into the storm to lift another above…
Quote byAnnie Besant · 1847–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology (1904), Part II, Will, Desire and Emotion, Chapter 5. Entering Into Peace..
English (original)
Yet is he able ever to bend down into the storm to lift another above it, without losing his own foothold on the rock of the Divine, consciously recognised as himself. Such are truly Masters, and Their peace may now and then be felt, for a time at least, by those who are striving to tread the same path, but who have not yet reached that same rock of the Self-conscious Divine.
— Annie Besant
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