Swami Vivekananda citáty

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„Vezmite si jednu myšlienku. Urobte z tejto myšlienky svoj život - myslite na ňu, snívajte o nej, žite podľa nej. Nechajte mozog, svaly, nervy, každú časť svojho tela, aby boli plné tejto myšlienky, a všetky ostatné myšlienky nechajte na pokoji. To je cesta k úspechu.“

„Oheň, ktorý nás zohrieva, nás môže tiež pohltiť; a to nie je chyba ohňa.“

„Blázon si môže kúpiť všetky knihy na svete, a budú v jeho knižnici; ale bude schopný si prečítať len tie, ktoré si zaslúži.“

„Vznášaj sa na krídlach mlčania a Boh sa ti prihovorí.“

„Najväčšie pravdy sú najprostejšie. Sú prosté ako vaše bytie.“

„Všetky rozdiely v tomto svete sú nejakého stupňa a nie druhu, pretože jednota je tajomstvom všetkého.“

„Naraz robte sa sústreďte iba na jednu vec, a pritom do nej vložte celú svoju dušu, aby ste vylúčili všetko ostatné.“

„Knihy sú nekonečné v počte a čas je krátky. Tajomstvom poznania je vziať si to, čo je nevyhnutné. Pochopte to a pokúste sa žiť podľa toho.“

„Sila ľudskej mysle nie je obmedzená. Čím je koncentrovanejšia, tým viac energie sa dostane na jeden bod.“

“Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.”

“If all India stands up and takes all the mud that is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean and throws it up against the Western countries, it will not be doing an infinitesimal part of that which you are doing to us.”

“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.”

“In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.”

“Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.”

“Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.”

“The will is not free—it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect—but there is something behind the will which is free.”

“What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.”

“Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.”

“We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?”

“We must overcome difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us unless we make ourselves susceptible to it.”

“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

“Unselfishness is God.”

“The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.”

“And may I ask you, Europeans, what country you have ever raised to better conditions? Wherever you have found weaker races, you have exterminated them by the roots, as it were. You have settled on their lands and they are gone forever. What is the history of your America, your Australia and New Zealand, your Pacific Islands and South Africa? Where are those aboriginal races there today? They are all exterminated, you have killed them outright, as if they were wild beasts. It is only where you have not the power to do so, and there only, that other nations are still alive.”

“The highest truth is this: God is present in all beings. They are His multiple forms. There is no other God to seek.... It is a man-making religion that we want.... Give up these weakening mysticisms, and be strong.... For the next fifty years. … let all other gods disappear from our minds. This is the only God that is awake, our own race, everywhere His hands, everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears; He covers everything.... The first of all worships is the worship of those all around us. … He alone serves God who serves all other beings.”

“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.”

“After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!”

“To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.”

“No one ever landed on English soil with more hatred in his heart for a race than I did for the English, and, on this platform, are present English friends who can bear witness to the fact, but the more I lived among them, saw how the machine is working, the English national life, mixed with them, found where the heart-beat of the nation was, the more I loved them. There is none among you here present, my brothers, who loves the English people more than I do. You have to see what is going on there, and you have to mix with them. As the philosophy, our national philosophy of the Vedanta, has summarised all misfortune, all misery from that one cause, ignorance, herein also we must understand that the difficulties that arise between us and the English people are mostly due to that ignorance; we do not know them, they do not know us.”