The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union.