This is a compilation from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. In the present confusion of thought and miserable plight through which people are passing, Swami Vivekananda's life-giving ideas on many of the burning socio-political problems that assail us today shed new light on the topic and show us a more suitable way to their solutions, thereby helping to establish a better world where people of all nations may live in peace and amity.
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes--when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.
-Swami Vivekananda