Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAll the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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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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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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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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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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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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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
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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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