Swami Vivekananda — Spiritual Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.”

Children Struggle Husband

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Spiritual

“They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.”

Littles Life Is Moments

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“It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.”

Men Soul Change

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“Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.”

Self Turns

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“He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.”

Heart Book

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“Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.”

Men Dream Self

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“Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.”

World Scripture Atman

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“There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !”

Real Dream Father

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“I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.”

Men Strong Divinity

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“Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.”

Ethics Bases Ethical

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“This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.”

Prayer Marriage India

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“In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.”

World Mind Soul

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