Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country. Swami Vivekananda law country Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind. Swami Vivekananda meditation mind thinking All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature. Swami Vivekananda religious struggle doors Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that! Swami Vivekananda ocean men years Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals. Swami Vivekananda real faith mistake No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. Swami Vivekananda stars motivational moving Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Swami Vivekananda use men long From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. Swami Vivekananda buddhist spiritual philosophy Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen. Swami Vivekananda india meals beautiful Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. Swami Vivekananda ashamed proud faith . . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper. Swami Vivekananda perseverance faith patience It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. Swami Vivekananda gains ego feelings Out of Mahat comes universal egoism. Swami Vivekananda egoism universal ego Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. Swami Vivekananda names motivational inspirational Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free. Swami Vivekananda real-men real men Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end. Swami Vivekananda intellect ends men Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams! Swami Vivekananda infinite dream men Only man makes Karma. Swami Vivekananda karma human-beings men The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man. Swami Vivekananda human-beings real men The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior. Swami Vivekananda mind mistake men
