Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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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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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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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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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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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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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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