Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Training Quotes, Mind Quotes

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

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We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

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All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

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Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

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Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

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In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

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This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

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There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

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Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

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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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One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

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Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

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Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.

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There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

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If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

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Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

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So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.

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Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

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This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

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There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the 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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