If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply …

Rabindranath Tagore
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If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower. ✨ Rabindranath Tagore (2010). My Life In My Words, p.10, Penguin UK
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