Question: What is the distance between the mind-confusion and the heart-illumination?
Sri Chinmoy: When the distance is measured by the frustration-vital the distance is farther than the farthest. When the distance is measured by the satisfaction-soul, the distance is shorter than the shortest. Not only that, the distance-reality does not exist between the cry of here and the smile of there, for they are inseparable and eternally one. The cry illumines, the smile fulfils.
Sri Chinmoy, Soulful questions and fruitful answers, Agni Press, 1976