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Why 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.

Swami Vivekananda

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Country Himself Religion World
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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God Space Strength Time
Why 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Afraid God Motivational People
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Responsibility Suffering
Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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Courage Heart Love Mind Myself
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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Inspirational Motivational Thinking Weakness
There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
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Infinite Soul Spiritual Unity
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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God Jealous Myself Reality Reign
I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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Life Material Meditation Myself Power
Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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Himself Men Perfection
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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Accomplishment Anger Greatness Man
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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Greatness Necessary Patience Perseverance
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Men Perfect Progress Strength Thinking
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
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Men Soul Spirit Substance
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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Generosity God Imagination Thankful World
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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Nation Progress Treatment Woman

Why 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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Why 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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