Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Practice Quotes, Data Quotes

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.

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Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

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The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

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Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

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The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.

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Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.

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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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Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

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A point of rest alone explains motion.

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Whatever you think, that you will be.

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If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

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Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

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Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

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In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

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What we want is progress, development, realisation.

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No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

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We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

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Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

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Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

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There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones.

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