Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.
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Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes.
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Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.
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Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.
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Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.
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Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.
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Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
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There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."
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Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
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An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.
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The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
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To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
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One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
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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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Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.
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We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
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The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.
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Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.
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Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.
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Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.
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Say it with pride we are Hindus
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We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.
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It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.
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This world is not for cowards.
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