Swami Vivekananda - Infinite Quotes

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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

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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.

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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

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Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

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Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

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Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

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Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

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The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

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Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!...

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The goal of mankind is knowledge.... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man "knows," should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what man "learns" is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

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If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

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If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

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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?

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The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

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Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

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Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

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Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.

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