Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Rain Quotes, Book Quotes

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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The perfect man sees nothing but God.

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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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Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.

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Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

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He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

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Let the end and the means be joined into one.

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The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

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Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

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When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

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Strength is life, Weakness is death.

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Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

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Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

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Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.

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He who conquers self conquers all.

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There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

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Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

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Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.

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Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

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This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

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