Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo 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.”
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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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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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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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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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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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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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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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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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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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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