"What makes you weep, my friend? In..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.”

“While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.”

“There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.”

“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

“Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.”

“The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.”

“Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).”

“No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.”

“We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.”