Swami Vivekananda quotes - page 5

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion - I am God - cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. (Swami Vivekananda)
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole. View quote
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There cannot be friendship without equality. View quote
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However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite. View quote
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Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back. View quote
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No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person. View quote
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Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. View quote
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Go on saying, "I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, "I am bound.”. View quote
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Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming. View quote
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All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us. View quote
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If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature. (Swami Vivekananda)
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. View quote
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Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. View quote
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As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful. View quote
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Strength is Life, Weakness is death. View quote
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. View quote
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We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful. View quote
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Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts? View quote
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Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines. View quote
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He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong. View quote
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The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being. (Swami Vivekananda)
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies. View quote
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God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not. View quote
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India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die. View quote
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The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. View quote
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