Swami Vivekananda

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Quotes of Swami Vivekananda

 

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your

development, but never imagine you can help the world.

 

When there is a conflict between the heart and the brain, let the

heart be followed .... the intellect has only one state, i.e.

reason .... it works within that and cannot go beyond. It is the

heart which can take you to the highest plane. It goes beyond the

limits of the intellect and attains to what is called inspiration.

 

Never mind the struggle, the mistakes -- I never heard a cow tell a

lie, but it is only a cow ... never a man. So never mind these

failures, these little drawbacks; hold the ideal a thousand times,

and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

 

In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and

not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so

light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

 

Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one.

Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or

bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off

superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Do not

repent, do not brood over past deeds. Be âzâd ( " free " ).