Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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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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.
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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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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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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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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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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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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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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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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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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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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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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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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.
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