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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.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Attainment Progress Test
He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Alone Energy Patience Perseverance Success
You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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Believe Expression Knowledge Motivational Strong Yourself
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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God Inspirational Motivational Ourselves
Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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Afraid God Motivational People
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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Different Faith Heart People Power Yourself
Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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God Space Strength Time
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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Infinite Soul Spiritual Unity
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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Life Material Meditation Myself Power
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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Gift Inspirational Life Motivational World
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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Awakening Effort Life Soul Spiritual
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Children Lying Practice Theory
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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Sky Soul Stars
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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Men Motivational Power Reality Strength Weakness
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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Funny History Inspirational Men Success
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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Country Himself Religion World

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