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Only Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing…
- Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
- I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as…
- "None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis",…
- 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…
- "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not.…
- Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy,…
- No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one…
- We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but…
- Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
- Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour,…
- Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless…
- Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is…
- Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining,…
- Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.…
- Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and…
- Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death…
- Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give…
- The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy…
- There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only…
- You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can…
- All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
- All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which…
- Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and…
- [Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty…
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