You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religion said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
^Saurod all quotes from Swami Vivekananda for you to dwell on :mellow:
Good old bla bla boy continues to grace us with his wisdom.