External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving. Swami Vivekananda knowingmeditationthinking Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything. Swami Vivekananda endsmean The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. Swami Vivekananda spiritualitywestlittles It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity. Swami Vivekananda humanitystrugglecharacter To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. Swami Vivekananda divinitymotivationalinspirational The sign of death is weakness. Swami Vivekananda weakness So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing. Swami Vivekananda fightingnamesmen Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice. Swami Vivekananda commandcowardsoldier Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down. Swami Vivekananda strongtakenspiritual Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Swami Vivekananda powermenblood There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them. Swami Vivekananda taughtdifferenceswish The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God. Swami Vivekananda kingsheartthinking What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth. Swami Vivekananda gainsearthheaven Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. Swami Vivekananda motivationalinspirationalbelieve The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. Swami Vivekananda meditationmindfulnessspiritual For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor. Swami Vivekananda evilmotivationalwar Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward. Swami Vivekananda cowardbecominghypocrite See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk. Swami Vivekananda christianchrist Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free. Swami Vivekananda strongmotivationalinspirational We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries. Swami Vivekananda spiritualgivingmean
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