"First, meditation should be of a negative..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

“The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.”

“We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.”

“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”

“Listen to the sound of waves within you.”

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.”

“Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.”

“When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.”

“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)”