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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Rumi
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Rumi
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.
Rumi
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
Rumi
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Rumi
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Vivekananda
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Vivekananda
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Vivekananda
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.
Vivekananda
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.
Vivekananda
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Vivekananda
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Vivekananda
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.
Vivekananda
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Vivekananda
All the power is within you, you can do anything and everything.
Vivekananda
The greatest teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Vivekananda
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Vivekananda
Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Vivekananda