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Swami Vivekananda , né le 12 janvier 1863 à Calcutta et mort le 4 juillet 1902 à Belur Math au Bengale-Occidental , est un philosophe et maître spirituel qui a fait connaître l'hindouisme au monde occidental et a inspiré le mouvement pour l'indépendance de l'Inde. C'est l'un des principaux disciples de Râmakrishna et le fondateur de la Mission Ramakrishna. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. janvier 1863 – 4. juillet 1902
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Swami Vivekananda: Citations en anglais

“Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”

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Pearls of Wisdom

“When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were, only we shall understand the whole thing.”

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Pearls of Wisdom

“As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.”

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Pearls of Wisdom

“A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.”

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Pearls of Wisdom

“"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls," and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.”

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“Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.”

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“Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.”

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“The greatest error is to call a man a weak and miserable sinner. Every time a person thinks in this mistaken manner, he rivets one more link in the chain of avidya that binds him, adds one more layer to the “self-hypnotism” that lies heavy over his mind.”

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Swami Vivekananda, Quoted by M.M. Thomas, The Acknowledged Christ of Indian Renaissance, 2nd Edition, Madras 1976, p. 125. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (1996). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 13

“The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.”

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“This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.”

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“There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.”

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“It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.”

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“The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.”

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“There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion — I am God — cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.”

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“If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”

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“If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.”

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“Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right?”

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“However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”

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“Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.”

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“No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.”

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“The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being.”

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“Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

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“The Vedanta teaches that Nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality.”

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“Go on saying, “I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, “I am bound.””

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Dehypnotize the whole thing.
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“Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.”

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“All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.”

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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.”

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