If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo 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.”
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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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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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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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 love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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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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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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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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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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