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Moment Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- 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…
- Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run…
- Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without…
- What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.
- 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…
- This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will…
- If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could…
- See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the…
- Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
- I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and…
- 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…
- If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.
- If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states…
- Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is…
- If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.
- Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth…
- When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and…
- The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others,…
- What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the…
- The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and…
- Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
- The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you…
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