These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
Swami VivekanandaNot only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.
Swami VivekanandaPurity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
Swami VivekanandaTo realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.
Swami Vivekananda