The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.
Swami VivekanandaThere is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
Swami VivekanandaLet us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.
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 VivekanandaThose who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.
Swami Vivekananda