Letter to Margaret E. Noble 14

I am so glad a whole load is off me, now I am happy. I have served Ramakrishna through mistakes and success for 20 years now. I retire for good and devote the rest of my life to myself.

Letter to Margaret E. Noble 11

We put all our energies to concentrate and get attached to one thing but we seldom pay any attention to the other part, the faculty of detaching ourselves at a moment’s notice from anything. Both attachment and detachment perfectly developed make a man great and happy.