"Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is……" — Swami Vivekananda
"Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death."
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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman…
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Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and…
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If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship…
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Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot…
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Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty -…
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Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen…
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Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians…
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Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
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Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
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Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with…
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that…
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More Contraction Quotes
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
— Michel de Montaigne
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are…
— Thaddeus Golas
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The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of…
— Ernest Starling
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Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the…
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction…
— Richard Serra
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I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and…
— Judith Jamison
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That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,
— LeBron James
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial…
— Adyashanti
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming…
— Eckhart Tolle
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As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your…
— Ken Wilber
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