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title: "Best Giving Quotes by Swami Vivekananda"
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> [To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/to-give-up-the-world-is-to-forget-the-ego-to-know-it-not-at-all/)

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> [Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/do-any-deserve-liberty-who-are-not-ready-to-give-it-to-others-let-us/)

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> [Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/give-up-all-desire-for-enjoyment-in-earth-or-heaven-control-the/)

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> [We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-never-want-him-we-say-lord-give-me-a-fine-house-we-want-the-house/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/knowledge-of-the-absolute-depends-upon-no-book-nor-upon-anything-it/)

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> [What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/what-is-the-world-that-is-to-be-given-up-it-is-here-i-am-carrying-it/)

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> [Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/work-done-for-the-self-gives-no-bondage-neither-desire-pleasure-nor/)

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> [An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/an-allopath-comes-and-treats-cholera-patients-and-gives-them-his/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/give-up-all-self-all-egotisms-get-out-of-anger-lust-give-all-to-god-i/)

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> [That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/that-intense-faith-in-another-world-that-intense-hatred-for-this/)

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> [ The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, \[when it\] gives everything. This… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-first-angle-is-love-questions-not-it-is-not-a-beggar-when-love/)

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> [We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-must-always-remember-that-god-is-love-a-fool-indeed-is-he-who/)

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> [Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/jesus-christ-was-god-the-personal-god-become-man-he-has-manifested/)

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> [Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/give-up-renounce-the-world-now-we-are-like-dogs-strayed-into-a/)

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> [ The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, \[when it\] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-first-sign-of-love-is-when-love-asks-nothing-when-it-gives/)

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> [He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/he-is-everywhere-the-pure-and-formless-one-the-almighty-and-the-all/)

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> [We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-get-caught-how-not-by-what-we-give-but-by-what-we-expect-we-get/)

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> [We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-want-today-that-bright-sun-of-intellectuality-joined-with-the/)

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> [Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/advaita-is-the-only-system-that-gives-us-complete-control-over/)

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> [The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-world-is-ready-to-give-up-its-secrets-if-we-only-know-how-to/)

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> [Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-hindu-knows-that-astrologers-try-to-fix-the-caste-of-every-boy/)

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> [I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/i-love-my-nation-i-cannot-see-you-degraded-weakened-any-more-than-you/)

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> [The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-man-who-gives-way-to-anger-or-hatred-or-any-other-passion-cannot/)

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> [May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/may-he-who-is-the-brahman-of-the-hindus-the-ahura-mazda-of-the/)

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> [Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/seek-no-praise-no-reward-for-anything-you-do-no-sooner-do-we-perform/)

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> [We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-must-not-forget-that-what-i-mean-by-the-conquest-of-the-world-by/)

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> [It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-always-for-greater-joy-that-you-give-up-the-lesser-this-is/)

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> [Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/those-that-only-take-a-nibble-here-and-a-nibble-there-will-never/)

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> [We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-must-become-free-we-are-free-the-work-is-to-know-it-we-must-give/)

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> [I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/i-fervently-wish-no-misery-ever-came-near-anyone-yet-it-is-that-alone/)

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> [Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/try-a-little-harder-and-meditation-comes-you-do-not-feel-the-body-or/)

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> [I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/i-am-a-slave-of-ramakrishna-who-left-his-work-to-be-done-by-me-and/)

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> [There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-another-way-in-which-this-idea-of-mercy-and-selfless-charity/)

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> [We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-have-seemingly-been-divided-limited-because-of-our-ignorance-and/)

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> [I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/i-am-thoroughly-convinced-that-no-individual-or-nation-can-live-by/)

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> [Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/d-na-charity-there-is-no-higher-virtue-than-charity-the-lowest-man-is/)

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> [Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/give-up-the-idea-that-by-ruling-over-others-you-can-do-any-good-to/)

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> [How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/how-has-all-the-knowledge-in-the-world-been-gained-but-by-the/)

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> [Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/renounce-and-give-up-what-did-christ-say-he-that-loseth-his-life-for/)

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> [It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-weakness-says-the-vedanta-which-is-the-cause-of-all-misery-in/)

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## More by Swami Vivekananda

> [Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-action-that-helps-us-manifest-our-divine-nature-more-and-more/)

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> [Holiness sincerity, and faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/holiness-sincerity-and-faith/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

> [The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-hindus-have-a-peculiar-slovenliness-in-business-matters-not-being/)

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> [Renunciation is in our blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/renunciation-is-in-our-blood/)

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> [Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/let-positive-strong-helpful-thoughts-enter-into-your-brains-from-very/)

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> [Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/where-can-we-go-to-find-god-if-we-cannot-see-him-in-our-own-hearts/)

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> [It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-free-alone-which-never-changes-and-the-unchangeable-alone/)

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> [Above all, India is the land of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/above-all-india-is-the-land-of-religion/)

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> [The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-awakening-of-the-soul-to-its-bondage-and-its-effort-to-stand-up/)

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> [It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-prana-that-is-manifesting-as-motion/)

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> [Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/though-an-atom-is-invisible-unthinkable-yet-in-it-are-the-whole-power/)

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> [Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/nothing-can-be-produced-without-a-cause-and-the-effect-is-but-the/)

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> [All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/all-the-strength-and-succour-you-want-is-within-yourselves-therefore/)

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> [Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/be-brave-be-strong-be-fearless-once-you-have-taken-up-the-spiritual/)

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> [“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-a-continuity-of-mind-as-the-yogis-call-it-the-mind-is/)

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                        "text": "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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                        "text": "Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.",
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                        "text": "Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts",
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                        "text": "The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited, is no longer questioned. If He distributes good, all right; if He brings evil, what does it matter? All other attributes vanish except that one-infinite love.",
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                        "text": "He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. \"Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life.\" Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. \"He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.\"",
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                        "text": "We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.",
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                        "text": "We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.",
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                        "text": "Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.",
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                        "text": "The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.",
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                        "text": "Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege.",
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                        "text": "I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, \"Hold!\" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.",
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                        "text": "May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.",
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                        "text": "Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.",
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                        "text": "It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.",
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                        "text": "Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.",
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                        "text": "I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.",
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                        "text": "I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!",
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                        "text": "There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as \"worship\" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.",
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                        "text": "We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.",
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                        "text": "I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.",
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                        "text": "Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.",
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                        "text": "Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.",
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                        "text": "How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.",
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                        "text": "Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? \"He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.\" Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.",
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                        "text": "It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.",
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