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 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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Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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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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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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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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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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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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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.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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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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