Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Book Quotes, Long Quotes

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

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Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

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Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

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Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

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God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

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He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

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To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

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We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

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Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

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With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

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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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The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure and a strong will is omnipotent. Before it all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants - the strong gigantic, infinite will in man.

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Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

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Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

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The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

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In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.

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See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

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This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

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