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The Absolute is the material of both God and man.
Swami Vivekananda
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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.
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How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
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Above all, India is the land of religion.
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We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether the wise ones praise or blame us.
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You must keep a strict eye on your health let everything else be subordinated to that.
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Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.
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