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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDASay, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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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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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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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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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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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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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
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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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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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