Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEach soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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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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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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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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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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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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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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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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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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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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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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