Oh, if you only knew yourselves! You are souls; you are gods. If ever I feel [that I am] blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
- Swami Vivekananda
From Mr. Frank Rhodehamel's notes taken during a March 1900 lecture in Oakland, California
"Send us mechanics to teach us how to use our hands, and we will send you missionaries to teach you spirituality."
- Swami Vivekananda
An excerpt from Mr. Thomas J. Allan's reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda's March 1900 San Francisco lecture series on India:
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