Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.
Swami VivekanandaTake off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
Swami VivekanandaNo study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
Swami VivekanandaIs it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
Swami VivekanandaAs soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.
Swami Vivekananda