We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.
Swami VivekanandaEvery action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
Swami VivekanandaThe guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.
Swami VivekanandaRenounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.
Swami Vivekananda