Swami Vivekananda

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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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

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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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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

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