All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAYour success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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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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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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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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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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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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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.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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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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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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