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States Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.
- If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot…
- The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.
- 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…
- This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our…
- All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated…
- How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come…
- When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this",…
- What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.
- In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from…
- In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not…
- Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness.…
- 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…
- Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable,…
- All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various…
- The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.
- After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other.…
- The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the…
- The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a…
- When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
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- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur