They come and go - Swami Vivekananda

The sages of the world have only the right to tell us that they have analysed their minds and have found these facts, and if we do the same we shall also believe, and not before.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life — face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.