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External Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are…
- Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
- Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.
- The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.
- No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the…
- External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
- This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that…
- Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form…
- Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our…
- What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
- External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.
- Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle…
- The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of…
- It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding…
- The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the…
- Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own…
- External nature is only internal nature writ large.
- Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,…
More External Quotes
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
- You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements… — Henri Bergson
- While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need… — Larry Bird
- It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and… — H. P. Blavatsky
- We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling… — H. P. Blavatsky
- Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly… — Daniel Boone
- What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially… — Constantin Brancusi
- Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. — William Throsby Bridges
- God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — Orson Scott Card
- Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie
- Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and… — Kurt Cobain