Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
Swami VivekanandaRead
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True freedom comes from belief and faith in oneself.
This quote by Swami Vivekananda emphasizes that freedom is a state of mind that can be achieved through belief and faith. It suggests that many constraints we face are self-imposed and can be overcome with the right mindset and conviction.
Themes
FreedomBeliefFaithMindsetSelf-Improvement
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming personal challenges.
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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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