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Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
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Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
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It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.
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Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.
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It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.
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So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.
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This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.
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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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As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.
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To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
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Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
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Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.
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This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
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When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.
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The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.
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Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
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God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?
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Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
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In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
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You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when y
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Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
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A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.
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Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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Swami Vivekananda
Born:
January 12, 1863
Died:
July 4, 1902
(aged 39)
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