I THE ATMAN SMITTEN WITH DISEASE! OFF WITH IT! TELL THEM TO MEDITATE FOR AN HOUR AT A STRETCH - AND EVERYTHING WILL VANISH

Why are Baburam and Yogen suffering so much? It is owing to their negative, their self-abasing spirit. Tell them to brush aside their illness by mental strength, and in an hour it will disappear! I the Atman smitten with disease! Off with it! Tell them to meditate for an hour at a stretch, "I am the Atman, how can I be affected by disease!" — and everything will vanish. Think all of you that you are the infinitely powerful Atman, and see what strength comes out. . .

- Swami Vivekananda
25th September, 1894 NEW YORK
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLVII Brother disciples

THINK ON IT DAY AND NIGHT. FILL THE MIND [ WITH IT ] DAY AND NIGHT - I AM THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE

[This truth] is first to be heard. Hear it first. Think on it day and night. Fill the mind [with it] day and night: "I am It. I am the Lord of the universe. Never was there any delusion.... " Meditate upon it with all the strength of the mind till you actually see these walls, houses, everything, melt away — [until] body, everything, vanishes. "I will stand alone. I am the One." Struggle on!

- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered in San Francisco, March 23, 1900) The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Soul And God