It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIt is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABe not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAPerfect 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAOur 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWe are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAs 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThere is no end to the power a man can obtain.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAll 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhen death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAKnow that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAFear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIshvara 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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