Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAs soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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 faith that makes a lion of a man.
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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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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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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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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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Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
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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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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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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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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.
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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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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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