That is the one cause of misery: we are attached, we are
being caught. Therefore, says the Gita: Work constantly; work, but be not
attached; be not caught. Reserve unto yourself the power of detaching yourself
from everything, however beloved, however much the soul might yearn for it,
however great the pangs of misery you feel if you were going to leave it;
still, reserve the power of leaving it whenever you want. The weak have no
place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery.
Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot
harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to
receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us.
Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us,
until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness
is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant
strain and misery: weakness is death.
—Swami Vivekananda
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