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Spiritual Leader Inspirational Quotes (1103)

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Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.
Swami Vivekananda
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While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, Hold! and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.
Swami Vivekananda
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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
Swami Vivekananda
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The power of purity-it is a definite power.
Swami Vivekananda
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Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.
Swami Vivekananda
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It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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Strength and manliness are virtue weakness and cowardice are sin.
Swami Vivekananda
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First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
Swami Vivekananda
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Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
Swami Vivekananda
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Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience there is no other way to know.
Swami Vivekananda
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The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.
Swami Vivekananda
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God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.
Swami Vivekananda
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Feel, my children, feel feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.
Swami Vivekananda
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Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil! That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them].
Swami Vivekananda
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We know there is no progress in a straight line.
Swami Vivekananda
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Your country requires heroes be heroes your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.
Swami Vivekananda
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As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes of what can we be afraid.?
Swami Vivekananda
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One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue. He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!
Swami Vivekananda
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The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.
Swami Vivekananda
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