Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
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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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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
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Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
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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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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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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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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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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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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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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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