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I am the thread that runs thr...

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Vivekananda 1692 quotes

This world is not for cowards...

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

Vivekananda 1692 quotes

Father is the existence out o...

Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.

Vivekananda 1692 quotes

God is present in every Jiva;...

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

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What is meant by charity? Cha...

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

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Faith, sympathy - fiery faith...

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

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After every happiness comes m...

After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.

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It is clear to us that, for g...

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

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The ideal person is he who, i...

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

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What good is this body? Let i...

What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!

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In India the mother is the ce...

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

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They aimless halt, who halt f...

They aimless halt, who halt for others.

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In one sense Brahman is known...

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

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Only when a man sees this uni...

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

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The soul ... is nameless beca...

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

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Throw overboard all idea of j...

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

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Man is the best mirror, and t...

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

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Don't you find that in a weak...

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

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The very reason for nature's ...

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

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A few heart-whole, sincere, a...

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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