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Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.

— Swami Vivekananda

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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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