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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIt is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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True progress is slow but sure.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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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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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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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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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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