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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe 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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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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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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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
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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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Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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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 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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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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