This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. - Swami Vivekananda

And may I ask you, Europeans, what country you have ever raised to better conditions? Wherever you have found weaker races, you have exterminated them by the roots, as it were. You have settled on their lands and they are gone forever. What is the history of your America, your Australia and New Zealand, your Pacific Islands and South Africa? Where are those aboriginal races there today? They are all exterminated, you have killed them outright, as if they were wild beasts. It is only where you have not the power to do so, and there only, that other nations are still alive.

It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.