My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: “I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.”
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.
Death’s stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
I’m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth’s last love. I will take life’s final offering, I will take the last human blessing.
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.