All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.