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Forms Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you…
- A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need…
- Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as…
- Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which…
- In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.
- All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".
- Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last…
- In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
- The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.
- The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out…
- The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .
- As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are…
- 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…
- We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect…
- The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only…
- All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various…
- Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
- 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,…
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- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation. — Travis Barker
- Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is… — Dalai Lama
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin
- Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start… — Eyvind Earle