Love and Unselfishness by Vivekananda
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Help vs selfishness
- What is life but growth, i.e. expansion, love?
- Therefore, all love is life, it is the only law of life; all selfishness is death, and this is true here or hereafter.
- It is life to do good, it is death not to do good to others.
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Love will pave the way.
- Be not afraid, my children.
- Look not up in that attitude of fear towards that infinite starry vault as if it would crush you.
- Wait! In a few hours more, the whole of it will be under your feet.
- Wait, money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay, nor learning.
- It is love that pays; it is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.
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Those who are men and yet have no feeling in the heart for man, well, are such to be counted as men at all?
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Duty is sweet only through love.
- Duty is seldom sweet.
- It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise.
- How else could parents do their duties to their children, husbands to their wives, and vice versa?
- Do we not meet with cases of friction every day in our lives? Duty is sweet only through love.
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Love yourself to love your work.
- Love never fails, my son; today or tomorrow or ages after, truth will conquer.
- Love shall win the victory... Believe in the omnipotent power of love.
- Who cares for these tinsel puffs of name?... Have you love? -- you are omnipotent.
- Are you perfectly unselfish? If so, you are irresistible.
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Passion with self-control will harness great will to do work.
- A cannon-ball flying through the air goes a long distance and falls.
- Another is cut short in its flight by striking against a wall, and the impact generates intense heat.
- All outgoing energy following a selfish motive is frittered away; it will not cause power to return to you; but if restrained, it will result in development of power. This self-control will tend to produce a mighty will.
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If your needs are met, help others, selfishness is bad philosophy.
- Selfishness is the chief sin, thinking of ourselves first.
- He who thinks, 'I will eat first, I will have more money than others, and I will possess everything'... is the selfish man.
- The unselfish man says, 'I will be last... if by doing so I can help my brothers.'
- This unselfishness is the test of religion. He who has more of his unselfishness is more spiritual.
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Unselfishness helps you more than selfishness.
- Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practise it.
- It is more paying from the point of view of health also.
- Love, truth and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power.
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Life is ever expanding, contraction is death.
The self-seeking man who is looking after his personal comforts and leading a lazy life- there is no room for him even in hell.
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I See God in People who need help of my strength.
- He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva;
- and if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary.
- He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste, or creed, or race, or anything,
- with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.
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Do you love your fellow men? Where should you go to seek for God - are not all the poor, the miserable, the weak, Gods? Why not worship them first?
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CURATOR'S NOTE
Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living. And above all, those who live without love. - Albus Dumbledore
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