"External purity is very easy and all the world rushes towards [it]. If a certain kind of dress is the kind of morality [to be observed], any fool can do that. When it is grappling with the mind itself, it is hard work. The people who do external, superficial things are so self-righteous!... We are always losing sight of the real meaning of things. The little eating and dress! Every fool can see that. Who sees that which is beyond? It is culture of the heart that we want."

- Swami Vivekananda, "Concentration" (March 16, 1900, Washington Hall, San Francisco)[recorded by Ida Ansell], Lectures and Discourses, Complete Works: Vol 4