Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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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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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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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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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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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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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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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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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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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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.
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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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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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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Ishvara 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.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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