Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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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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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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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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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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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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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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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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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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