Vivek Vaani

Few of Vivekananda sayings I love and also wanted to share with all of you here.

• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
• The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.
• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
• Arise, Awake, and Stop not till the Goal is Reached.
• 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.
• Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from the very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralyzing ones.
• Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow — never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.