Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Our 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.
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Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
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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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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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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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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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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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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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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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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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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