Tag: Swami Vivekananda
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The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda
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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda
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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda