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Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
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The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.
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Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?
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What we want is progress, development, realisation.
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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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Each nation has a main current in life in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
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The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.
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The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine” they are only blessed in being instruments
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To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.
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Change is the nature of all objective things.
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Man is not mind, he is soul.
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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it.
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Science and religion will meet and shake hands.
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A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
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God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.
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Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?
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Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called Kali took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.
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