“He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind-that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.”
(p.414, V.8, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Swamiji’s letter to Marie Halboister dt 25th July 1897)