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“wasn’t really a Weird fan. I thought everybody should Spotlight. After all, isn’t it ‘Everyone information, Everyone In The Spotlight, Everyone A Star?’ For the mandatory fifteen minutes, or whatever’s right. But I sure admired their guts.”
― Dave DeLuca, Neighborworld

“We are not our bodies, we are not our minds, we are not our thoughts, we are not our ego. We have a body, we have a mind, we have thoughts, and we have an ego, but our highest truth is the Ever-Blessed Atman, the fountainhead of all joy and light and love that is the core and fundamental truth of our being. One”
― Dave DeLuca, Sacred Jewels of Yoga: Wisdom from India's Beloved Scriptures, Teachers, Masters, and Monks

“The vast mass of Indian people are dualists, worshiping a Personal God. Human nature ordinarily cannot conceive of anything higher. We find that 90 percent of the population of the earth who believe in any religion are dualists. All the religions of Europe and Western Asia are dualistic;”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Through delusion we have been trying to forget our nature, and yet we could not, for it was always calling upon us, and all our search after God or gods, or external freedom was a search after our divinity, our real nature.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Taking all this for granted, how is it that I do not remember anything of my past life? This can be easily explained. I am now speaking English. It is not my mother tongue. In fact, no words of my mother tongue are now present in my consciousness; but let me try to bring them up, and”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Yoga, a word derived from the same Sanskrit root as the English word yoke, meaning “to join,” to join us to our reality, God.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Do you not remember what the Bible says: “If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Everyone and everything is Brahman, the pure, the ever-blessed Infinite Spirit. It is the name and the form that make all the seeming distinctions. If you take away these two differences of name and form, the whole universe is one; there are no two, but one everywhere.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“This is to be remembered: those who worship God through ceremonials and forms, however crude we may think them, are not in error. It is the journey from truth to truth, from lower truth to higher truth. Darkness means less light; evil means less good; impurity means less purity. It must always be kept in mind that we should see others with eyes of love, and with sympathy, knowing that they are going along the same path that we have trodden.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“The Advaitist or the qualified Advaitist does not say that dualism is wrong; it is a right view, but a lower one. It is on the way to truth. Therefore, let everybody work out their own vision of this universe, according to their own ideas. Injure none, allow people their way; take a person where he or she stands, and, if you can, lend a helping hand and put them on a higher platform, but do not injure and do not destroy. All will come to truth in the long run.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“It is not that there are three things, matter, mind, and soul; all is the One Soul, seen according to different visions. When knowledge itself comes, all illusions vanish, and we find that it is all nothing but Brahman.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Therefore, Vedanta formulates not universal brotherhood, but universal oneness.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“I am Brahman.” This is to be heard day after day. Everything lesser must be thrown aside; this truth is to be repeated continually, day and night, poured through the ears until it reaches the heart, until every nerve and muscle and drop of blood tingles with the idea that “I am He, I am He.” It is the greatest strength; it is religion. These are the words that will burn up the dross that is in the mind, words that will bring out the tremendous energy that is within you already, and words that will awaken the Infinite Power which is sleeping in your heart.”
― Dave DeLuca, Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God