⧭ Necessity is nothing but the love, simplicity and tolerance of father. Expand the meaning of life, the spread and the love are the same. So love is life --- that is the only dynamic force of life.
⧭ What is the social, political, or spiritual-all is the basis of the right welfare. The fact is that 'I and my brother are one'. All sides of the country are equally true about this.
⧭ Man is the supreme creature in life, and the world is the highest person. We can not think of God as bigger than human; So our God is man --- and man is also God
⧭ What is the social, political, or spiritual-all is the basis of the right welfare. The fact is that 'I and my brother are one'. All sides of the country are equally true about this.
⧭ Man is the supreme creature in life, and the world is the highest person. We can not think of God as bigger than human; So our God is man --- and man is also God
⧭Sisters and Brothers of America, It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.
⧭My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration.
⧭I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.
⧭The Gita teaches us to put our whole mind on work, without a thought to the results. This calls for strength of mind. If we succumb to desire for the results, it is a source of weakness. Success comes unasked, unsought, to the strong.
⧭If you are weak, you will be overcome by failure, sorrow or disease. Attachment and detachment are key attitudes to work. Attachment can be to high eternal values, and efforts directed to them alone can bring true, long-lasting joy.
⧭"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back multiplied a thousand fold -- but the attention must not be on that. You have the power to give, and there it ends. Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force you to give. Sooner or later, you will have to give up"
⧭Selfless love is an eternal value, while selfish love is a transient one. Says Vivekananda "Whatever we do, we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in virtue, we are traders in religion. And Alas!, we are traders in love".
⧭In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: "Help and not fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension."
⧭My thanks to those noble souls whose large hearts and love of truth first dreamed this wonderful dream and then realized it. My thanks to the shower of liberal sentiments that has overflowed this platform. My thanks to this enlightened audience for their uniform kindness to me and for their appreciation of every thought that tends to smooth the friction of religions. A few jarring notes were heard from time to time in this harmony. My special thanks to them, for they have, by their striking contrast, made general harmony the sweeter.
⧭If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.
⧭My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration.
⧭I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.
⧭The Gita teaches us to put our whole mind on work, without a thought to the results. This calls for strength of mind. If we succumb to desire for the results, it is a source of weakness. Success comes unasked, unsought, to the strong.
⧭If you are weak, you will be overcome by failure, sorrow or disease. Attachment and detachment are key attitudes to work. Attachment can be to high eternal values, and efforts directed to them alone can bring true, long-lasting joy.
⧭"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back multiplied a thousand fold -- but the attention must not be on that. You have the power to give, and there it ends. Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force you to give. Sooner or later, you will have to give up"
⧭In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: "Help and not fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension."
⧭Blaming circumstance, blaming the world, can only give sorrow, not a solution. It is self-defeating. The central lesson from Swami Vivekananda then is: "Let us perfect the means, and the end will take care of itself. For the world can be good and pure, only if our lives are good and pure. It is an effect, we are the means. Therefore let us purify ourselves. Let us make ouselves perfect"
⧭If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.
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