"Man only remains hypnotised with the false..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.
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“Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.”
“Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.”
“We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.”
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“So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.”
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“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”