Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANone of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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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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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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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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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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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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