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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Attainment Progress Test
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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Begining Devotion Ideal Necessary Practice Religious
Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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End Forget Forgiveness
Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Blame Commitment Ignorance Mistake
It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Faith Inspirational Lion Men One Liner
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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Death Fear Hell Inspirational Life Motivational Wrong
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Greatness Necessary Patience Perseverance
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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One Liner Soul Spiritual Teacher
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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Learning Spirituality Teaching
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Himself Inspirational Struggle Try
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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Attachment Avoid Endurance Liberty
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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Expectation Knowing Life Perfect
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Body Divine Greatness Mind Strength Word
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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Practice Reason Superstitions
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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Feeling Intellectual Life
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Courage Inspirational Motivational Patience

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