Maybe, the East and West can never meet, but the South and the North shall ever meet ! Walt Whitman, the Rishi par extraordaire, being human, was subject to sorrow, suffering and strife, but be never allowed these to overwhelm him, because behind the body-mind-intellect complex, was the Almighty Self, the Will and the Passion to surpass the individual and the biological, and to enter what the poet Rilke, defined as Super Numerous Existence !