The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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.
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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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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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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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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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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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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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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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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