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Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?
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 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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Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
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Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.
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Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.
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So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.
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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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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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The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.
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This is the great fact: strength is life.
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Watch people do their most common actions these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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