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.
-- Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

Free will is not free--it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect--but there is something behind the will which is free.
-- Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

In separateness lies the world’s great misery,
in compassion lies the world’s true strength.
— Siddhārtha Gautama

_/\_ Namasté नमस्ते

"I believe in God, in a higher order that is above the human species. We are not at the top of the chain. There's something bigger than us. But it cannot be defined. If we could quantify it, identify it, catalog it, it would lose its value. It would cease to be what it is." --Daniel Ellsworth

Without the foundation of self-knowledge, what we think has very little meaning. --J. Krishnamurti