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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Swami Vivekananda

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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Alone Body Heart Light Sacrifice Soul
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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Expectation Knowing Life Perfect
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
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Responsibility Suffering
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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Fear Hero Inspirational Motivational Myself
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
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Children Lying Practice Theory
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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Sky Soul Stars
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Inspiration Meditation Practice Soul
They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Alive Live
True progress is slow but sure.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress True
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
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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Practice Reason Superstitions
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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Men Motivational Power Reality Strength Weakness
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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God Inspirational Motivational Ourselves
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

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