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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAFeel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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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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Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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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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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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