The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
Swami VivekanandaWe are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.
Swami VivekanandaThe awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
Swami VivekanandaThe spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.
Swami Vivekananda