Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Book Quotes, Self Quotes

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

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Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.

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There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

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Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

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Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

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He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

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If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

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Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

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Motion is the sign of life.

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External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

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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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This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya.

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When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

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The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

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Every change is being forced upon us.

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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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As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

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Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

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The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

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