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Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

— Swami Vivekananda Disputed

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To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Remember, the centre of our national life is not politics or economy but Dharma.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.

Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899)

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

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