Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAOur 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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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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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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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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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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