He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIf 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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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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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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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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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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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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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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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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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 hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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