Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Understanding Quotes

Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

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Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

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Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

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The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

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I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

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How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

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Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

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. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

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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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Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

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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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Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

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A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

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Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.

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Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

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There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

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The Yogi must always practice.

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Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!

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The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

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