Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAReal love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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True progress is slow but sure.
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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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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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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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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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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