Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

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Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

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All law has its essence in causation.

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The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

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The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

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This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples

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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

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Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

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All real progress must be slow.

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Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

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When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

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If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

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Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

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All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations.

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The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

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It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

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Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

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