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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.
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In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.
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We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.
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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.
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This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
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The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
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Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!
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I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.
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Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.
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Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.
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A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
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Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything.
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Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
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I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.
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I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.
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Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
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