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They alone live who live for others…

Friday, February 5, 2010

The following quote by Swami Vivekananda has always been one that really interested and motivated me, though I think it is one that merits discussion:
“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive”
Tonight, I decided to find [...]

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Why unselfishness?

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Swami Vivekananda, in Karma Yoga, enjoins us to “work for work’s sake” (source). He writes:
“There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work’s sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven. They work just because good will come of [...]

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How to develop confidence

Monday, January 25, 2010

Today, at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Center in Boston, Swami Tyagananda delivered a lecture on “Living from Moment to Moment.” He discussed human perception of time — how sad past events haunt us and uncertain future events frighten us, leaving little room to focus on the present. Regarding the past, he remarked that a memory which [...]

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