From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.
Swami VivekanandaThe secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
Swami VivekanandaThis body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
Swami VivekanandaFrom attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.
Swami Vivekananda