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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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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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Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.
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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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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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Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.
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Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
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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.
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What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Comfort is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being comfortable.
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Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.
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The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.
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God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
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A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.
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What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
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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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