vivekananda

As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own.

We will illustrate love by a triangle, of which the first angle at the base is fearlessness. So long as there is fear, it is not love. Love banishes all fear. A mother with her baby will face a tiger to save her child. The second angle is that love never asks, never begs. The third or the apex is that love loves for the sake of love itself. Even the idea of object vanishes. Love is the only form in which love is loved. This is the highest abstraction and the same as the Absolute.

Great people are those who build highways for others with their heart's blood. This has been taking place through eternity, that one builds a bridge by laying down his own body, and thousands of others cross the river through its help. Evem astu, evam astu. Shivo'ham! Shivo'ham! "Be it so, be it so! I am Shiva! I am Shiva! (Letter to his brother-disciples. Written in Bengali from New York on September 25, 1894. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Part-6. Page-273-74.)