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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.

Swami Vivekananda

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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Courage Heart Love Mind Myself
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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Action Live Reflection Success Yourself
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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Nation Progress Treatment Woman
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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Coward Fear Greatness Selfishness
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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Afraid God Motivational People
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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Acknowledgement Beautiful Believe Religion Soul Theory
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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Action Death Face Learning Thinking Weakness Wind
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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High Knowledge World
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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Hate Love Philsoophy Run Yourself
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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Help Intellectual Strong
By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
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Body Control Heart Men Practice Stop
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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Mind Possible Reading Reality
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Greatness Necessary Patience Perseverance
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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Accomplishment Anger Greatness Man
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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Himself Men Perfection
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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End Human Men Power
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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Gift Inspirational Life Motivational World
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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Character Difference Fame Learning Money Pay Wall
He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Alone Energy Patience Perseverance Success
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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Flower God Soul
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Body God Himself Identify Men Mistake
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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Knowledge Practice Shine Sun
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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God Inspirational Motivational Ourselves
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Children Lying Practice Theory
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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Responsibility Suffering
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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Death Learning Men Myself

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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