Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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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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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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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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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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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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