Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
Swami VivekanandaRead
You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .
Interpretation
What this quote means
True love and bliss lead to the absence of anger.
This quote by Swami Vivekananda suggests that when a person embodies love and bliss, they transcend negative emotions like anger. The essence of infinite existence implies that one's connection to a higher state of being can eliminate feelings that disrupt inner peace, highlighting a transformative approach to emotional well-being.
Themes
LoveAngerBlissPeaceExistence
In practice
Example use cases
During a meditation workshop, the teacher quoted Vivekananda to emphasize the importance of love in overcoming negative emotions.
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.
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Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.
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