Some
quotes from Speaking Tree by 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.
· The
powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself;
as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the
sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets
· My nature
is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask
for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love's
sake. I cannot trade in love.'
· There is
only one sin. That is weakness.... The only saint is that soul that never
weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game
· If
superstition enters, the brain is gone
· Let all
your nerves vibrate through the backbone of your religion
· That
which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to
increase brutality in you is vice
· Learning
and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart
that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the
Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat
· 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 the future can be
produced by our present actions; so we have to know have to act.
· FEEL like
Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It
is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no
amount of intellectual activity can reach God
· Desire,
ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage
Speaking Tree Web Site – speakingtree.in
