Swami Vivekananda Quotes, God Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

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Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

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The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

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Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

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The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

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Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

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My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

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Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.

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Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.

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Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

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We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

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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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Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

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He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."

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[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

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Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

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Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

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