Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. - Swami Vivekananda
A Sanyaasi does not enter politics. He saw that Nivedita will be needed in the political field and hence never initiated her into Sanyaas.
A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.
"Let people praise you or blame you...see that you do not deviate from the path of truth."
Are you unselfish? If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.
Earth's bravest & best will have to sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare of all. - Swami Vivekananda
We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful towards those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
Condemn none, if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you can't, fold your hands bless your brothers, and let them go their own way