May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.
Swami VivekanandaOur supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.
Swami VivekanandaExcepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.
Swami VivekanandaA golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.
Swami VivekanandaThrough practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.
Swami Vivekananda