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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Swami Vivekananda

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Alone Heart Joy Peace Person Suffering True
It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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Different God Religion Spiritual
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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Different Faith Heart People Power Yourself
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
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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Ability Gift Grateful Help Men Poor Yourself
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Himself Inspirational Struggle Try
The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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Believe Doubt Glory Greatness Past
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Astrology Mind Weakness
Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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End Forget Forgiveness
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Attainment Progress Test
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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Children Growth Woman Work Out Wrong
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Inspiration Meditation Practice Soul
Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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Men Moral Strength Willing
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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God Jealous Myself Reality Reign
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Children Lying Practice Theory
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

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