Swami Vivekananda — Spiritual Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.”

Giving Occupation World Religions

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.”

Father Jesus Son

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Spiritual

“Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.”

Done Body Perfection

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Spiritual

“Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.”

May Europe Yield

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Spiritual

“Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .”

Sex Ocean Wine

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Spiritual

“Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.”

Men Matter Philosophy

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Spiritual

“Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.”

Men Becoming Divinity

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“Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.”

Believe Doe Struggle

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“No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.”

Law Evil Discipline

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Spiritual

“The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.”

Inspiration Giving Up Inspiring

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“Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.”

Men Talking Our Society

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“Each soul is potentially divine.”

Soul Divine

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