One Step Enough for Me

Gandhiji offered the following counsel to Esther Menon, a Danish missionary who left her society in the early 1920s to join him at Sabarmarti Ashram:

“The impenetrable darkness that surrounds us is not a curse but a blessing. He has given us power to see the steps in front of us and it would be enough if Heavenly Light reveals that step to us. We can then sing with Newman, 'One step enough for me.' And we may be sure from our past experience that the next step will always be in view. In other words, the impenetrable darkness is nothing so impenetrable as we may imagine. But it seems impenetrable when in our impatience we want to look beyond that one step.”

(M. K. Gandhi, 'Letter to Esther Menon', 1 April 1934, C. W., vol. 57, p. 344.)