All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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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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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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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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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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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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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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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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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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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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