' In the world but not of it '...

"The wind carries the smell of the sandal-wood as well as that of ordure, but does not mix with either.

Similarly a perfect man lives in the world, but does not mix with it."



Sri Ramakrishna
in F. Max Muller
Ramakrishna: His Life And Sayings, 65
Longmans, Green, And Co., London & New York, 1898, p. 112