We have identified ourselves with our bodies. We are only
body, or rather, possessed of a body. If I am pinched, I cry. All this is
nonsense, since I am the soul.
All this chain of misery, imagination, animals,
gods, and demons, everything, the whole world -- all this comes from the
identification of ourselves with the body. I am spirit. Why do I jump if you
pinch me? ...
Look at the slavery of it. Are you not ashamed? We are religious!
We are philosophers! We are sages! Lord bless us! What are we? Living hells,
that is what we are. Lunatics, that is what we are!
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in San Francisco
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