When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWe 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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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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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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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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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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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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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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Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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.
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