"The mistake is that we cling to the……" — Swami Vivekananda

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is… - Swami Vivekananda

"The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal."

— Swami Vivekananda

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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda has 1,363 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman…
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and…
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship…
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot…
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty -…
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen…
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians…
Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with…
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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