Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Belief
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world -- that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not understanding it in the right light. throw the burden on yourselves!
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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
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First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything.
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Go on saying, 'I am free.' Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, 'I am bound.' Dehypnotize the whole thing.
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If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.
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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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Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.
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To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
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If you ask me, 'Is there a God?' and I say 'Yes,' you immediately ask my grounds for saying so, and poor me has to exercise all his powers to provide you with some reason. If you had come to Christ and said 'Is there any God?' he would have said, 'Yes,' and if you had asked, 'Is there any proof?' he would have replied, 'Behold the Lord!'