The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
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.
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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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Mind 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.
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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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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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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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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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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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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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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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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