"In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours."
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Swami Vivekananda quotes (page 79 of 86)
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"The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside."
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"As thou thinkest, so art thou."
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"Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change."
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"We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness."
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"The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend."
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"It is the want that creates the body."
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"It is a constant change. Not one body is constant."
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"Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us."
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"No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves."
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"How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!"
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"National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races."
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"It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion."
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"You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light."
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"Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still."
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"The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India."
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"Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study."
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"There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing. There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first."
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"When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning."
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"My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you."
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