Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Thinking Quotes

The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

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Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

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To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

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A point of rest alone explains motion.

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The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

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Everybody is changing.

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As the cause is, so the effect will be.

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Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

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What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.

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Change is always subjective.

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Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

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The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

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The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

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We shall progress inch by inch.

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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

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I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

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What is this universe but name and form?

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It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

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If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

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