My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
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