"This ego - the less there is..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.”

“We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.”

“The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.”

“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.”

“Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.”

“Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.”

“There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.”

“When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.”

“Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.”