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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWe are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
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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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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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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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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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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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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 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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Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
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As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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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 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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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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