All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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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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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
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Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty
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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.
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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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Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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True progress is slow but sure.
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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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