Sri Sarada Devi Ashram

Bhakti is intense love for God. When a person has bhakti he loves all, hates none; he becomes satisfied for ever.
We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than anyone who has got by heart a whole library.
Householders must speak the truth and speak gently, using words that will do good to others.
This is the gist of all worship - to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva (God) in the poor, in the weak and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image his worship is but preliminary.

Wisdom from Swami Vivekananda

The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we love and the better will our work be.
We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.
Religion is not in books, nor in theories, dogmas, nor in talking, not even in reasoning. It is in being and becoming.
All love is expansion; all selfishness is contraction! Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves, lives.
It is a privilege to serve humankind, for this is the worship of God. God is here in all these human souls. He is the soul of man.
Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God.
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practise. To be good and to do good - that is the whole of religion.