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 VIVEKANANDAFear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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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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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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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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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.
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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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