Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDALiberty 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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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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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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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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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
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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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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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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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We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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