In intellectual development we can get much help from books, but in spiritual development, almost nothing.
In studying books, sometimes we are deluded into thinking that we are being spiritually helped; but if we analyse ourselves, we shall find that only our intellect has been helped, and not the spirit.
That is the reason why almost everyone of us can speak most wonderfully on spiritual subjects, but when the time of action comes, we find ourselves so woefully deficient.
It is because books cannot give us that impulse from outside.
To quicken the spirit, that impulse must come from another soul.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Addresses on Bhakti-Yoga, New York
In studying books, sometimes we are deluded into thinking that we are being spiritually helped; but if we analyse ourselves, we shall find that only our intellect has been helped, and not the spirit.
That is the reason why almost everyone of us can speak most wonderfully on spiritual subjects, but when the time of action comes, we find ourselves so woefully deficient.
It is because books cannot give us that impulse from outside.
To quicken the spirit, that impulse must come from another soul.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Addresses on Bhakti-Yoga, New York
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