With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].
Swami VivekanandaIt is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.
Swami VivekanandaHold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
Swami VivekanandaThrough faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.
Swami Vivekananda