Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
Swami VivekanandaI could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.
Swami VivekanandaThe root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.
Swami VivekanandaConsciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.
Swami VivekanandaBooks suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.
Swami Vivekananda