Notes of a series of inspiring class talks of Swami Vivekananda delivered during his seven weeks' stay at Thousand Island park, U.S.A. on various religious and philosophical topics and recorded by Miss S. E. Waldo, an American disciple.
The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter -- as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
-Swami Vivekananda