"From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.”

“The power of purity-it is a definite power.”

“This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.”

“Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.”

“I'm so bored with it all.”

“When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.”

“Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.”