Happiness is only found in the Spirit. Therefore the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit. …
As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.
As soon as this idea of separation comes, it opens the door to all mischief and leads to all misery.
This is the utility that if a very small fractional part of human beings living today can put aside the idea of selfishness, narrowness, and littleness, this earth will become a paradise tomorrow; but with machines and improvements of material knowledge only, it will never be.
- Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, London
As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.
As soon as this idea of separation comes, it opens the door to all mischief and leads to all misery.
This is the utility that if a very small fractional part of human beings living today can put aside the idea of selfishness, narrowness, and littleness, this earth will become a paradise tomorrow; but with machines and improvements of material knowledge only, it will never be.
- Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga, London
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