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21 Effective Quotation of Swami Vivekananda

1. If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplishedmountains can be crumbled into atoms.

2. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life think of it, dreamof it, live on idea. et the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of yourbody, be full of that idea, and !ust leave every other idea alone. Thisis the "ay to success.

#. $ome out into the universe of ight. %verything in the universe isyours, stretch out your arms and embrace it "ith love. If you every feltyou "anted to do that, you have felt &od.

'. (ll kno"ledge that the "orld has ever received comes from themind) the infinite library of the universe is in our o"n mind.

*. +tand up, be bold, be strong. Take the "hole responsibility on youro"n shoulders, and kno" that you are the creator of your o"n destiny.(ll the strength and succor you "ant is "ithin yourself. Thereforemake your o"n future. . There is no help for you outside of yourself)you are the creator of the universe. ike the silk"orm you have built acocoon around yourself-. urst your o"n cocoon and come out a" the

beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you "ill see Truth.

/. It is our o"n mental attitude "hich makes the "orld "hat it is forus. 0ur thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly.The "hole "orld is in our o"n minds. earn to see things in the properlight. irst, believe in this "orld, that there is meaning behindeverything. %verything in the "orld is good, is holy and beautiful. Ifyou see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the rightlight. Thro" the burden on yourselves

3. 4old to the idea, 5I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am"atching my mind act,6 and each day the identification of yourself"ith thoughts and feelings "ill gro" less, until at last you can entirelyseparate yourself from the mind and actually kno" it to be apart fromyourself.

7. (ll love is e8pansion, all selfishness is contraction. ove is thereforethe only la" of life. 4e "ho loves lives, he "ho is selfish is dying.Therefore love for love9s sake, because it is la" of life, !ust as youbreathe to live.

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1:. 0ur duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to hiso"n highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal asnear as possible to the Truth.

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%ven the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it "ere after his orher heart. ut the intelligent ones are those "ho can convert every"ork into one that suits their taste.

12. $ondemn none; if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If youcannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers and let them go their o"n"ay.

1#. %ach "ork has to pass through these stagesridicule, opposition,and then acceptance. Those "ho think ahead of their time are sure to

be misunderstood.

1'. If you think that you are bound, you remain bound) you make youro"n bondage. If you kno" that you are free, you are free this moment.This is kno"ledge, kno"ledge of freedom. reedom is the goal of allnature.

1*. (s long as "e believe ourselves to be even the least different from&od, fear remains "ith us) but "hen "e kno" ourselves to be the 0ne,

fear goes) of "hat can "e be afraidhy should "e be in ahurry< The real "orking force of all great "ork is in its almostunperceived beginnings.

1/. earning and "isdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely,but it is the heart that is the seat of all po"er. It is not in the brain butin the heart that the (tman, possessed of kno"ledge, po"er, andactivity, has its seat.

13. ?nderstanding human nature is the highest kno"ledge, and onlyby kno"ing it can "e kno" &od< It is also a fact that the kno"ledge of&od is the highest kno"ledge, and only by kno"ing &od can "eunderstand human nature

17. @urity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials tosuccess and, above all, love.

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2:. If you "ant to have life, you have to die every moment for it. ifeand death are only different e8pressions of the same thing looked atfrom different standpoints) they are the falling and the rising of thesame "ave, and the t"o form one "hole.

21. %ach soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity"ithin by controlling nature, e8ternal and internal. Ao this either by"ork, or "orship or psychic control or philosophy by one or more orall of these and be free.