Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
Swami VivekanandaFirst, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.
Swami VivekanandaEven luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
Swami VivekanandaEach soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
Swami Vivekananda