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Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Buddhism, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2610, Manonmani Publishers

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

Swami Vivekananda
Hero, Greatness, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1828, Manonmani Publishers

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Used, Masters
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Sweet, Men, Perfection
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.462, Manonmani Publishers

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Perfection, Return
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1383, Manonmani Publishers

Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfect, Perfection
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.58, editionNEXT.com

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

Swami Vivekananda
Realization, States, Persons

The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Strong, Tests
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

Swami Vivekananda
Ignorance, Fighting, Winning
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.79, SkyLight Paths Publishing

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Men, Firsts
Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.353, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, And Love, Morality
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.203, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Perfect
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

Swami Vivekananda
Faults, Right Now
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1715, Manonmani Publishers

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

Swami Vivekananda
Growth, Progress, Degradation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3533, Manonmani Publishers

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Progress, Language
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2681, Manonmani Publishers

"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

Swami Vivekananda
Kings, Order, India
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.152, Advaita Ashrama

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

Swami Vivekananda
Pariahs, Educated, Castes
Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Materialism, Egoism
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

Swami Vivekananda
Believe, Mind, Materialism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Waiting, Good Man
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1084, Manonmani Publishers

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Long, House
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4341, Manonmani Publishers

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

Swami Vivekananda
Water, Roaring, Locks
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.

Swami Vivekananda
Sleep, Winter, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.951, Manonmani Publishers

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Ocean, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving Up, Men, Glasses
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.41, editionNEXT.com

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