Religion 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 VIVEKANANDALet him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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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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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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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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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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