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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.

Swami Vivekananda

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Believe Future Sage
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.”
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Desire Freedom Men Terrible
The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Library Mind Yourself
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
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Desire Joy Passion Reality
It 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Different God Religion Spiritual
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Mind Possible Reading Reality
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Body God Himself Identify Men Mistake
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Easy Inspirational
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Hurt Inspirational Intelligence Motivational People
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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Learning Spirituality Teaching
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

God Laughter Principles Spiritual Yourself
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Courage Heart Love Mind Myself
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Generosity God Imagination Thankful World
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Ourselves Positive Power Thinking
All 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Knowledge Practice Shine Sun
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Awakening Effort Life Soul Spiritual

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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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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