Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIf you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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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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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
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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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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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 mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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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 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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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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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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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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The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.
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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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