None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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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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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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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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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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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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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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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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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