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Spirituality Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they…
- A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality…
- Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more…
- Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,”…
- The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and…
- Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction…
- The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
- Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The…
- Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is…
- Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.
- Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
- Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
- Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in…
- Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
- Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality…
- On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.
- You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own…
- Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality,…
- Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else…
- Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the…
- Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but…
- Spirituality is the science of the Soul.
- Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the…
- Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon