We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 39
What do I care if Mohammed was a good man, or Buddha! Does that alter my own goodness or evil? Let us be good for our own sake and our own responsibility! Not because somebody way back there was good!
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 38
How to attain purity living this life? Shall we all go to the forest caves? What good it would do? If the mind is not under control, it is no use living in a cave because the same mind will bring disturbances there. We will find twenty devils in the cave because all the devils are in mind. If the mind is under control, we can have the cave anywhere, wherever we are. It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in proper light.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 37
Whatever you do, devote your whole mind, heart and soul to it. I once met a great sannyasi, who cleansed his brass cooking utensils, making them shine like gold, with as much care and attention as he bestowed on his worship and meditation.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 36
In the history of mankind, you will find that there come Messengers, and that from their very birth there mission is found and formed. The whole plan is there, laid down; and you see them swerving not one inch from that. Because they come with a mission, they come with a message, ….. When they speak, each word is direct; it bursts like a bomb-shell. What is in the word, unless it has the Power behind? What matters is what language you speak, and how you arrange your language? What matters it whether you speak correct grammar or with fine rhetoric? What matters it whether your language is ornamental or not? The question is: Whether or not you have anything to give? It is a question of giving and taking, and not listening. Have you anything to give? – that is the first question. If you have, then, give.
Monday, June 3, 2013
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 35
Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. As vibration continues, so thought remains in the form of thought until translated into action. For example, force is latent in the arm until he strikes a blow, when he translates it into activity. We are the heirs of good and evil thought. If we make ourselves pure and the instruments of good thoughts, these will enter us. The good soul will not be receptive to evil thoughts.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 32
The main difference between men and the animals is the difference in their power of concentration. All success in any line of work is the result of this. ….. The difference in the power of concentration also constitutes the difference between man and man. Compare the lowest with the highest man. The difference is in the degree of concentration.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 34
What work you do except from the men of little hearts? Nothing in the world! You must have an iron will if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 33
Ninety percent of thought-force is wasted by the ordinary human being, therefore he is constantly committing blunders; the trained man or mind never makes a mistake.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 31
Free! We, who cannot, for a moment, govern our own minds, nay, cannot hold our minds on a subject, focus, it on a point to the exclusion of everything else, for a moment! Yet we call ourselves free. Think of it!.....The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, forever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.
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