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“We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.”

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

This book includes a wide range of Swami Vivekananda's teachings on spirituality, philosophy, and social issues, offering insights into his thoughts on various aspects of life and the human condition. more

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902) was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, and social reformer. Born as Narendranath Datta in Kolkata, he was a chief disciple of the mystic Ramakrishna. He is best known for his historic speech at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, where he introduced Hinduism to the Western world. He founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897, focusing on social service, education, and interfaith harmony. His teachings emphasized self-realization, service to humanity, and the unity of all religions. He wrote extensively on yoga and Vedanta philosophy, influencing global spirituality and Indian nationalism. He died at the age of 39, leaving a lasting legacy as a bridge between Eastern and Western thought. more

“When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred. We must get free from any body, even a "god-body". God is the only real existence, there cannot be two. There is but One Soul, and I am That.”

Needs Two Real Soul Body Form Names Existence Eternal Bondage Progression Annihilation

Book:Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park

Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park

“I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.”

Firsts Done Language Albums Tongue Native Grammy Spanish Language

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.”

Knows Giving Trying Mind Self Done Body Pain Desire Pleasure Working It Realising Bondage Mind And Body Work Done

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.”

Funny Church Poor Money Wife Taxes Bills Enormous Ran Cheese Mice Adders

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“Pound notes are the best religion in the world.”

World Funny Money Notes Pounds

Book:The wit of Brendan Behan

Source: The wit of Brendan Behan

“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.”

Humans Children Soul Play Childhood Expression Development Highest Human Development Child Development Children Playing Free Expression Free Play

Book:Froebel's Chief Writings on Education

Source: Froebel's Chief Writings on Education

“The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.”

Mean War Winning Force Loses Air Victory Salvation Fighter Navy Air Force Bombers Air Power Army Navy

Book:Their Finest Hour

Source: Their Finest Hour

“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

Enough Light Death Suffering Dies Dark Comfort Eternity Graves Immortality Passages Ugh Recompense

Author:William Penn

“A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?”

Men Should Children Death Born Members Grieving

Book:Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes

Source: Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes

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