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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAReligion 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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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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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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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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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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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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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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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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