For the world can be good and pure, only if our lives are good and pure. It is an effect, and we are the means. Therefore, let us purify ourselves. Let us make ourselves perfect.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 52
I disagree with the idea that freedom is obedience to the law of nature. I do not understand what that means. According to history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 51
Man begins to struggle and fight against nature. He makes many mistakes, he suffers. But eventually, he conquers nature and realizes his freedom. When he is free, nature becomes his slave.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 50
Unfortunately, in this life, the vast majority of persons are groping through this dark life without any ideal at all. If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore, it is better to have an ideal.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 49
„Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.‟ Be of good cheer and believe that we are selected by the Lord to do great things, and we will do them.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 48
Make your own future. „Let the dead past bury its dead.‟ The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that each word, thought and deed lays up a store for you, and that as the bad thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon like tigers, so also there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are ready with the power of hundred thousand angels to defend you always and for ever.
QUOTES FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 47
Say, „This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.‟ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves.
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