The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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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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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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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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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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