Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

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It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.

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Religion is not in fault.

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Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

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Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

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A point of rest alone explains motion.

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Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

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Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

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External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

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Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

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The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand 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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If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

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The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

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The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.

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He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

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Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.

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The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

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Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

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When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

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