Swami Vivekananda Quotes

We are the living devils.

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We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

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There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

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How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

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Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

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Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

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The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

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Renunciation is in our blood.

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If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.

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Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

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There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.

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Change is always subjective.

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If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

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Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

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Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

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He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.

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The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

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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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As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

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The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

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