Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEverything is ended if you forgive and forget.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANone of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAI 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAHave 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIt is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAstrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABe grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDATalk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANever talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDATake up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAI have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAFeel 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDALet him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAReligion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA