"Each work has to pass through these..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
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“Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.”
“All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.”
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
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“Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward”
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
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“You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.”
“I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.”