If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.