We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAReal freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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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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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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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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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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