Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANone of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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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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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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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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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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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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