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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. This is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

— 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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