"External motion we call action; internal motion..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
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“Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.”
“How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.”
“You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .”
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“Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.”
“Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice”
“Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.”
More on Thought
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”
“It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.”