Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.
Swami VivekanandaThe Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.
Swami VivekanandaOh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
Swami VivekanandaWhen we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.
Swami VivekanandaHave faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.
Swami VivekanandaAy! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.
Swami Vivekananda