poet-seers

Updated: May 29, 2025

So it is with God, whose creation is the production of tranquillity and utter joy, and so it is with godlike men men such as St. Francis of Assisi in the West and the poet-seers of the Upanishads in the East. All these are at once joyous and serene. In the coming religion all our actions will be joyous and tranquil. And what as to Islam?

Thomas Kelly Cheyne - The Reconciliation of Races and Religions