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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAYou 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Liberty 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.
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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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Do 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.”
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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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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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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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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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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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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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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
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