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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAstrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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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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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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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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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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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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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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