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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda
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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
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If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.
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In one sense Brahman is known to every human being he knows, I am but man does not know himself as he is.
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An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.
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