More golden words of Vivekananda

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" Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no

other way to know. If we have not experienced it in this life, we must

have experienced it in other lives. " (2:220)

 

" Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the

difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all

such fictions and monstrosities. " (4:358)

 

" If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own

bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is

knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature. " (2:462)

 

" We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You

are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough

and you will be free in a minute. " (6:93)

 

" I know full well how good it is for one's worldly prospects to be *sweet*.

I do everything to be *sweet*, but when it comes to a horrible compromise

with the truth within, then I stop. " (5:70)

 

" If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not

strong enough for you....Everyone says, 'Woe unto you people!' Who says,

'Woe unto me that I cannot help you?' The people are doing all right to

the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I

cannot lift them to where I am! " (1:439)

 

" It is one of the evils of your Western civilization that you are after

intellectual education alone, and take no care of the heart. It only makes

men ten times more selfish, and that will be your destruction. " (1:412)

 

" To learn this central secret that the truth may be one and yet many at the

same time, that we may have different visions of the same truth from

different standpoints, is exactly what must be done. Then, instead of

antagonism to anyone, we shall have infinite sympathy with all. Knowing

that as long as there are different natures born in this world, the same

religious truth will require different adaptations, we shall understand

that we are bound to have forbearance with each other. " (4:181)

 

" I shall go to the mosque of the Muslim; I shall enter the Christian's

church and kneel before the crucifix; I shall enter the Buddhistic temple,

where I shall take refuge in Buddha and in his Law. I shall go into the

forest and sit down in meditation with the Hindu, who is trying to see the

Light which enlightens the heart of everyone. Not only shall I do all

these, but I shall keep my heart open for all that may come in the future.

Is God's book finished? Or is it still a continuous revelation going on? "

(2:374)

 

Offered with Love,

 

Tim

 

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