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In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
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As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?
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The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.
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The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.
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Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.
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Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.
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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.
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Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.
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Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
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Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
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There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.
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Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work
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This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.
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We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.
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Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.
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Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.
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Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
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Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.
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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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First get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge.
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To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.
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You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar.... It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.
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Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.
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Swami Vivekananda
Born:
January 12, 1863
Died:
July 4, 1902
(aged 39)
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Swami Vivekananda Bengali, born Narendranath Dutta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda
Raja Yoga (1896)
Karma Yoga (1896)
Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897)
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