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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.
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Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.
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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
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Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
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Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
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The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
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Let a man go down as low as possible there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.
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These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
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I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
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In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.
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Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there literally believe this. Repeat I am Thine, I am Thine, for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him.
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External nature is only internal nature writ large.
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Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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The road to salvation is through truth.
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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
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Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.
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If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.
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In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.
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