Swami Vivekananda quotes - page 2

The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything. (Swami Vivekananda)
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. View quote
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The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. View quote
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The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils' what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge. View quote
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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. View quote
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Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love. View quote
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The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say "me” and "mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments. View quote
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Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom. View quote
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In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours. View quote
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Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity. View quote
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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. (Swami Vivekananda)
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence. View quote
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Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom. View quote
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First get rid of the delusion "I am the body,” then only will we want real knowledge. View quote
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Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. View quote
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Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead! View quote
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Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand. View quote
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Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. View quote
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The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. (Swami Vivekananda)
The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God. View quote
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Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself. View quote
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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. View quote
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Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies; but the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality. View quote
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