Vivekananda Quote 5

Vivekananda Quote 5

Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 2

We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when we say, the world is bad and we are good. It can never be so. It is a terrible lie we tell ourselves. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon any one outside. But be a man, stand up, lay the blame on yourself. Get hold of yourself.

Vivekananda Quote 4

Vivekananda Quote 4

Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 2

The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There may be a million microbes of misery, floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.

Vivekananda Quote 3

Vivekananda Quote 3

Work and its Secret
Complete Works – Volume 2

The greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it; but perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that it is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still we cannot tear ourselves away from it. The bee came to sip the honey, but its feet stuck to the honey-pot and it could not get away. That is the one cause of misery: we are attached, we are being caught. Therefore says the Gita: “Work constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught.”