My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAstrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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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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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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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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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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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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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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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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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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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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