I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals Swami Vivekananda kingshandsyears Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. Swami Vivekananda way Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men? Swami Vivekananda gratefulmenthinking Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. Swami Vivekananda motivationalinspirationalthinking This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. Swami Vivekananda lessonsinspiringinspirational We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements. Swami Vivekananda progressachievementpast It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country. Swami Vivekananda landcountrychildren Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came. Swami Vivekananda tryingmotivationalinspirational This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples Swami Vivekananda racementhinking What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun. Swami Vivekananda spiritualitymeanworld Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage. Swami Vivekananda inspiringmotivationalinspirational Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. Swami Vivekananda strengthstrongmotivational The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. Swami Vivekananda inspirationheartinspirational I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense. Swami Vivekananda cowardpoliticalhate Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap. Swami Vivekananda returnenergyaction To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. Swami Vivekananda panoramadoedesire Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself. Swami Vivekananda curvesfaithmen Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate. Swami Vivekananda progresssoulmind Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit. Swami Vivekananda foundationspiritworship Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action. Swami Vivekananda beliefperfectiondoe
