Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

If we are lost to ourselves, God is our own and we are his own: and we sink ourselves eternally and irretrievable in our one possession which is God… And this downsinking is like a river, which without pause or turning back ever pours into the sea.

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Originally published as a 143-pages article in Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 8 (1947). Click here to access the full publication. This excerpt reproduced here with thanks.