Fear 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIshvara 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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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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Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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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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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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