Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Perfection can never be attained by work.

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Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

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Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

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...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

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Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

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Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

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He who conquers self conquers all.

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In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

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No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

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As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

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We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

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All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

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After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.

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I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

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We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

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Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

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We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.

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Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

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