#swami vivekananda

[thecalminside]

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

-Swami Vivekananda

[mountain-sage]

"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage.

Everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."

- Swami Vivekananda

[entheognosis]

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

illustration by Alfred Rethel

[funeral]

Swami Vivekananda, Jnana-Yoga

[dreamcatcher-cat]

An incomplete list of people I wish had met just so we could have amazing discourse

Buddha and Mahavira (maybe they did and there's just no record, who knows)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Swami Vivekananda (most plausible, only if they didn't live in different time periods)

Mendel and Darwin (I'm most mad about this)

[squirrelspidersquotations]

"Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth." Buddha

"Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life." Thich Nhat Hanh

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." Robert Anson Heinlein

"Once you label me, you negate me." Soren Kierkegaard

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetus

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." Aldous Huxley

"Looking at beauty in the world, it the first step of purifying the mind." Amit Ray

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true." Swami Vivekananda

"Never stop learning, because life never stop teaching." Mu'uminina Sadiqina

[normalweirdoboy]

- normalweirdoboy

Swami Vivekananda:

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