Swami Vivekananda quotes - page 6

First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything. (Swami Vivekananda)
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe. View quote
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Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. View quote
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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. View quote
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We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best. View quote
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The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul. View quote
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Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality. View quote
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So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire. View quote
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Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. View quote
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Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. View quote
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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. (Swami Vivekananda)
Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. View quote
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Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. View quote
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When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment. View quote
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The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us. View quote
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This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. View quote
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Every step I take in light is mine forever. View quote
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The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free. View quote
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Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. View quote
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Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. View quote
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What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth. (Swami Vivekananda)
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. View quote
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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. View quote
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Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. View quote
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Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities. View quote
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