Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAll 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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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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.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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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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