swami vivekananda life quotes

-Swami Vivekananda

1.Truth can say a thousand different ways, but each can be true.
-Swami Vivekananda
Truth, true, different

2.In the case where we can go to find God if we do not see it in our hearts and in every living being.
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God Himself Find

3.if faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
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Faith, of course, ourselves

4.The Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta to say that you are weak, you are a sinner, a miserable, and you have no power and you can not do this and that.
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Power, the largest, can not

5.As streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
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God different Sea

6.when an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
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"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. Anyone who loves life, who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live. "
-Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vivekananda letters
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7. "All power is within you, you can do everything and anything. Believe in it, do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us today. You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you. "
-Swami Vivekananda, Lectures from Colombo to Almora
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8. "Request or avoid, take what comes."
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9. "Anything that makes weak -. Physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison"
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10 "The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.".
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11. "Comfort is no test of truth. The truth is often far from being comfortable."
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12. "Strength is life, weakness is death.
Expansion is life, contraction is death.
Love is life and hatred is death. "
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13. "We reap what we sow. We are the architects of our own destiny.
The wind blows, the ship whose sails are deployed
catch, and go forward on the way, but those who
their tight sails do not catch the wind. Is it the fault of
the wind? ....... We make our own destiny.
"
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15. "Arise, awake, stop not till your goal is reached."
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16. "What you think you will.
If you think yourself weak, weak you will be;
If you think hard, you'll be "
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17. "Each work has to pass through these stages-ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood. "
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18. "Do one thing at a time, and in so doing he put all your soul to the exclusion of everything else."
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19. "Nothing to feel, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, leave everything to God, and say absolutely, 'Thy will be done." We dream that this servitude. Wake up and let it go. "
-Swami Vivekananda
Tags: advaita, enlightenment, Hinduism, non-duality, spirituality

. 20 "Learn all that is good in others, but the set, and the way you absorb;. Do not become the other"
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21. "We are responsible for what we are and what we want to be ourselves, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are is the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions, so we need to know how to act. "
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22 "Do not ask;. Not want anything in return Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think about that now.".
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23. "Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all knowledge of God is limited to a particular book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress the pages of a small book! "
-Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga
Tags: books, god, religion

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24 "Condemn none:.. If you can reach out, do if you can not, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and they go their own way."
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25. "The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make us strong."
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. 26 "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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27. "Blessed are they whose bodies are destroyed in the service of others."
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28. "Beleive in yourself and the world is at your feet"
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29. "Shri Ramakrishna used to say:" As long as I live, so long do I learn. " This man or company that has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. "
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30. "The joyful spirit perseveres and strong spirit hews its way through a thousand difficulties."
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31. "This is a great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal, weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death. "
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32. "Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to. "
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33. "The Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta to say that you are weak, you are a sinner, a miserable, and you have no power and you can not do this or that. "
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34. "There is no limit to the power of the human spirit. The more concentrated it is, the more power is applied to a point "
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35. "Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, churches or books are only the supports, using his spiritual childhood. "
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36. "Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. To do this either by work, or worship or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or several, or all of them - and be free. This is religion. Doctrines, dogmas, rituals, books, temples, or forms, are but secondary details. "
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37. "The only religion to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Whether in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the cause of certain degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear begets evil. And what's scary? The ignorance of our own nature. "
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38. "Be strong! ... You talk of ghosts and demons. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. All that is weak, avoid! He's dead. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the brave deserves salvation. "
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39. "Do not look back to the front, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience, then only can be accomplished great things."
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40. "The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. iron nerves with a smart brain - and everyone is at your feet. "
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41. "Where can we go to find God if we do not see it in our hearts and in every living being."
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42. "He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who does not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself. "
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43. "The earth is enjoyed by heroes"-this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I do not fear."
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44. "Never say," Lord, I am a miserable sinner. "Who will help you? You are using the universe. What in this world can help you? What can you take on? You are the God of the universe, where can you ask for help? Never help came from everywhere, but yourself. In your ignorance, all the prayers that you have made and met, you thought responded to some to be, but you've answered prayer yourself without knowing it. The help came from you, and fondly imagined that someone was sending help. There is no help for you outside of yourself, you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around you. Who will you save? Burst your own cocoon and come out as a beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Only then will you see the truth. "
-Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: V. 3
Tags: 1896, god, non-duality, there is a look-as-much, Vedanta

45. "All of life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that's all."
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46. "If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be fair to call it a sin? Nor even when he passed that stage, should call it a mistake. [...] The man does not move from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. For him, all religions lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher strength, collecting more and more until it reaches the glorious sun. "
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47.I this quote I dislike this quote "We are what our thoughts have made us to take care of what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel a lot. "

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48.I this quote I dislike this quote "Where can we go to find God if we do not see it in our hearts and in every living being."

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49.I this quote I dislike this quote "You can not believe in God until you believe in yourself."

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50.i this quote I dislike this quote "The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are happier"

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51.i Like this quote I dislike this quote "The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make us strong."

"Abandon the idea that by rule over others, you can do any good for them, but you can do as much as you can in the case of the factory:. You can provide the seed crop with materials for making his body, making him the land, water, air, she wants. It will have everything she wants by his own nature, he will learn and grow by its own nature. "
-Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: V. 3
Tags: 1897, India, leadership, madras, metaphor, Vedanta

52. "Are you altruistic? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a church or temple. "
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53. "The desire, ignorance and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage."
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54. "Even the fool can accomplish a task if it were after his heart. But the most intelligent are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste. "
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55. "By doing the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we're stronger"
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56.Swami Vivekananda quotes (showing 61-90 of 138)
"When I realized that God sitting in the temple of every human body, when I am in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. "
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57. "There is no separate you from God, not God more than the real" you ". All the gods are small beings to you, all the ideas of God and the Father in heaven is only your own reflection. God Himself is your image. "God created man in his image." This is false. Man creates God in his image. That's right. Throughout the world we create gods after our own image. We create God and bow down at his feet and worship him, and when this dream comes, we love it! "
-Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: V. 3
Tags: 1896, advaita, dualism, god, Vedanta

58. "This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the guilty. "
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59. "Tapas and other hard yogas that have been practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is to give to help others. "
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60. "Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you may say: "I will work on the salvation of the woman or the child."
-Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: V. 3
Tags: 1897, India, freedom, madras, noninterventionism, thelema, Vedanta

61. "How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave, because without his absence they can not grow. The plants are still small in a big tree. "
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Tags: guru, Hinduism, independence, leadership, Vedanta

62. "The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
-Swami Vivekananda
Tags: existence, Hinduism, simplicity, truth

63 "If in this hell of a world, we can bring a little joy and peace even for a day in the heart of one person, that is only true;. This I learned after suffering all my life, everything else is simple moonshine. . . ".
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64. "A good practice carried to the extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil."
-Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: V. 3
Tags: bhakti, extremism, formalism, too-it

65. "All truth is eternal. The truth is anyone's property, no race, no one can lay any exclusive claim to it. The truth is the nature of all souls. "
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66. "This commitment to the love of God is a man who does not bind the soul, but actually breaks all easements."
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67. "Bless people when they insult you. Think how good they are helping to eradicate the false ego. "
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68. "The desire can be eradicated by the roots firmly imbibing the four attributes. Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and full devotion to God"
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69. "Have faith in man, if you feel it is a very learned one or more ignorant."
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70. "The very reason for the existence of nature is for the education of the soul."
-Swami Vivekananda, Karma yoga: The yoga of action

71. "The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated, they illuminate."
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72. "The plant tender spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals. Many people, in the name of what might be called religious liberalism can be considered feed their curiosity with a continuous succession of different ideals. With them, to hear new things develops into a kind of disease, a kind of religious mania drink. They want to hear new things just by obtaining a temporary nervous excitement, and when such exciting influence has had its effect on them, they are ready for another. Religion is with these people some kind of intellectual opium-eating, and it ends. "
-Swami Vivekananda
Tags: 1896, bhakti, dilettantism, liberalism, spirituality

73. "One of the great advantages of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to achieve God's great purpose for it is big disadvantage is that, in its lower forms it often degenerates in hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism, Islam or Christianity, have been recruited almost exclusively from these worshipers [sic] on the lower Bhakti plans. It is the simplicity of setting (Nishtha) to a beloved object, without which no true love can grow, is very often the cause of the termination of all the rest. All weak and underdeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, ie, hatred of any other ideal. Here is the explanation of why the same man who is so lovingly attached to his own ideal of God, so devoted to his own ideal of religion, becomes a howling fanatic as soon as he sees or hears something other ideal " .
-Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: V. 3
Tags: bhakti, devotion, fanaticism, hate, love

74. "The heart and soul of everything here is good, that whatever the surface waves at the bottom and all underlying sub, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love."
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75. "Now, looking intense Karma Yoga with boundless courage and indomitable force in the heart. Then only the locals wake up. "
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76. "Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to its highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth."
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77. "The truth can be told in many different ways, but each can be true."
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78. "Arise, awake and STOP is that the goal is reached"
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79. "Some men and women around the heart, sincere and energetic can do more in one year than the crowd in a century."
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80. "God is present in every Jiva, there is no other God than this. Which serves Jiva serves God indeed. "
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. 81 "astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, so when they become prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food and rest."
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82. "Do not be afraid, for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with people. Out of their ranks are the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can repeat itself. Do not be afraid of anything. You can do a wonderful job. "
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83. "Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man."
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84.If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for his life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at
from different points of view, they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form a set
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85.Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, so when they become prominent in our minds, we should see
a physician, take good food and rest
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86.Religion as a science, as a study, is the largest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have
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87.The varieties of religious belief is an advantage because all religions are good, as they encourage us to lead a religious life. Most
There are sects are more opportunities for a successful divine instinct in all of us call
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88.Be perfectly resigned, perfectly indifferent and only then can you do a real job Swami Vivekananda No eyes can see the real forces we can not see the results.
Put the car, forget it, just let God work, it is his business
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89.Look on every man, woman, and everyone as God. You can not help someone, you can not serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself,
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90.Are you altruistic? This is question.If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church
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