Some quotes from
Speaking Tree by Swami Vivekananda.
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To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts
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Don't look back, but go forward with infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience. Then alone can great deeds be accomplished
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Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary for anyone to be spiritual
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Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself
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Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming
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Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself
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Those who work at a thing with all the heart and soul, not only achieve success in it, but through their absorption in that they also realise the supreme truth. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart, receive help from God
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That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice
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The Will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the Will which is free.
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It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor, children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward -- 'love'' unselfishly for love's sake
Speaking
Tree Web Site – speakingtree.in
