Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Reality
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External nature is only internal nature writ large.
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'Comfort' is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being 'comfortable.'
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As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.
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Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.
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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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This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.
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This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.
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We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
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What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.