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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Swami Vivekananda

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.
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Feeling Intellectual Life
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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Nation Progress Treatment Woman
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Courage Inspirational Motivational Patience
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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Anger Deep Men Philsophy Reaction Slave
Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Blame Commitment Ignorance Mistake
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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Gift Inspirational Life Motivational World
Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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Health Love Myself Reality
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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Flow Inspirational Remarkable
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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One Liner Soul Spiritual Teacher
The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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Anger Break Men Passion Pieces
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
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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Desire Freedom Men Terrible
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
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Ability Gift Grateful Help Men Poor Yourself
They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Alive Live
All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Body Food Force Human

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