I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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.
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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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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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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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 any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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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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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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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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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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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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