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“He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The Hindus have discovered that the absolute can only be realised, or thought of, or stated, through the relative, and the images, crosses, and crescents are simply so many symbols — so many pegs to hang the spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for every one, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If [you think] thought cannot be manufactured, stop eating for twenty days and see how you feel. Begin today and count. ... Even thought is manufactured by food. There is no doubt about it.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
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