In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.


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TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of cha...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, bu...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reac...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Anythin That Makes You Weak Physically, Intellectually And Spiritually, reject As Poison .
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monke...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is the search for freedom--and ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
I leave none bound, I take no bonds.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
SWAMI NIRMALANANDA
We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are dri...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman ...
SWAMI BEYONDANANDA
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got ...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if t...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. ...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA
डेविड ने मुझे यह महसूस कराया कि कार्यस...
OM SWAMI
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impress...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic tim...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Religion, the great milch cow, has given many kicks, but never mind,it gives a great deal of milk.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of scienc...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thre...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
You are the creator of your own destiny
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fea...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
To succeed,you must have tremendous perseverance,tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean" says the ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are pass...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
ASANA

Now I shall instruct you regarding the nature of asana or seat. Although by 'asana...
SWAMI LAKSHMANJOO
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suff...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
They alone live, who live for others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wro...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sid...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA