Some quotes from Speaking Tree by Swami Vivekananda
- It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God
- To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts
- Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world
- Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached
- We see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages of growth. The end of all religions is the realizing of God in the soul. That is the one universal religion.'
- Let all your nerves vibrate through the backbone of your religion
- Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.
