Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.
Swami VivekanandaEach man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.
Swami VivekanandaAs soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
Swami Vivekananda...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
Swami Vivekananda