“"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls," and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.”

—  Swami Vivekananda

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Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863–1902

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