When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABe an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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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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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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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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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 think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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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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