As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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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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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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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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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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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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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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