Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Chance never helps those who do not help themselves."
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Atman
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"You are the creator of your own destiny"
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great."
Marcus Thomas
Author
"You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love, pretending not to be. You're all one, pretending not to be. You're all Gurus, pretending not to be. You're all God, pretending not to be. When you're ready to stop pretending, then you're ready to just be the real you. That's your home."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom."
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"But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman."
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"Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition."
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