Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

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You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

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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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If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

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Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

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Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

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The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

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The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

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

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There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

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Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

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There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

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The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

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You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

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Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

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Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

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Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

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Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

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Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.

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There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

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