WORDS OF VIVEKANANDA

Always discriminate between the real and the unreal, and devote yourself, heart and soul, to the attempt to realize the Atman.  (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda:  Volume 6, page 519)

(Comment:  The real is what is abiding, reliable, eternal, while the unreal is what is transient, undependable, impermanent.  Atman/Brahman is real; the manifested, time-bound world is unreal.)

Always think that this body is only an inert instrument, and the self-contained Purusha (Atman) within is your real nature.  (CW:  Volume 7, page 194)

Always try to get absorbed in the eternally present Atman.  (CW:  Volume 7, page 267)

Let every man, woman, and child, without respect of caste or birth, weakness or strength, hear and learn that behind the strong and the weak, behind the high and the low, behind everyone there is that Infinite Soul, assuring the infinite possibility and the infinite capacity of all to become great and good.  (CW:  Volume 3, page 193)

The natural universe is the result of the limited consciousness of man.  When man becomes conscious of his divinity, all matter, all nature, as we know it, will cease to exist.  (CW:  Volume 6, page 97)

Undifferentiated consciousness, when differentiated, becomes the world.  (CW:  Volume 7, page 39)

Our present consciousness is only a little bit of an infinite sea of mind.  Do not be limited to this consciousness.  (CW:  Volume 9, page 268)