"Blows are what awaken us & help..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.”

“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

“In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.”

“Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?”

“The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.”

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”

“This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

“Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.”

“No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.”