Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhen a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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