There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;.... and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. (Robert Browning)

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;.... and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Robert Browning

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