Tuesday, October 2, 2007

21 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda




This post has been shamelessly plagiarised from the net....i take no credit whatsoever for compiling or posting it....it has been posted by my alter ego ( the pirate)




1.  Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto that. Look at the "ocean" and not at the wave.
2.  That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice.
3.  He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva.
4.  Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary for anyone to be religious. Purity is strength. Spiritual truth is purity.
5.  The ideal of the man is to see God in everything. The real evil is idleness which is the principal cause of our poverty.
6.  Everyone should know that there is no salvation except through the conquering of desires.
7.  Death being so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
8.  Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
9.  Your country reqires heroes, be heroes!
10.  To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts.
11.  Each soul is potentially divine.
12.  Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.
13.  All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that .
14.  Work, work, work - let this be your motto.
15.  Now the only way out is to listen to the words of the Lord in the Gita.
16.  Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear".
17.  Struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it.
18.  Feel that you are great and you become great.
19.  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.
20.  At my will mountains will crumble up. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
21.  It is those foolish people who identify themselves with their bodies that piteously cry, 'Weak, weak, we are weak'.

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