Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
Swami VivekanandaAll these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
Swami VivekanandaLook not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.
Swami VivekanandaAll motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.
Swami VivekanandaHere in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.
Swami Vivekananda