Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart. — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
“Most of us will find that we were born for service. We must leave the results to God. If failure comes, there need be no sorrow. The work was done only for God. - Swami Vivekananda” — Sister Nivedita Copy Share
Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren Hastings, and crams in certain unavoidable preliminaries, which cover a few thousands of years...The history of India has yet to be written for the first time. It has to be humanized, emotionalized, made the trumpet-voice… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share
If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion.… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share
“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.” — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
