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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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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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True progress is slow but sure.
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Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
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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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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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Say, “I can do everything .” “Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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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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All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.
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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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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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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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