Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhy are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.
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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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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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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 remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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