The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .
Swami VivekanandaAs long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.
Swami VivekanandaThere is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
Swami VivekanandaMan's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
Swami VivekanandaWhen we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred. We must get free from any body, even a "god-body". God is the only real existence, there cannot be two. There is but One Soul, and I am That.
Swami Vivekananda