Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANeither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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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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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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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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You must all pay attention to your health first.
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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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