26 A-Z

By Swami Vivekananda

Life Secrets & Tips

Practice your ABCs daily to change your attitudes towards your life

A- All the powers in the universe are already ours

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

B- Be Truthful
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

C- Condemn none
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

D- Do good to others
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

E- Encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his idea

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

F- Friendship ends when you stop sharing

"Life ends when U stop dreaming, Hope ends when U stop believing, Love ends when U stop caring, Friendship ends when U stop sharing. So share all your feelings with whomever, you consider a friend ..."

G- God is to be worshipped as the one beloved

GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

H- Have faith in yourselves

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

I- If you think about disaster, you will get it

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

J- Just as you breath to live

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

K- Knowledge is inherent in man

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

L- Love God, but do not ask anything in return

To worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

M- My nature is love him and therefore I love

MY nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for loves sake. I cannot trade in love.

N- Never think there is anything impossible for the soul

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

O- Only one religion

BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

P- Powers of the mind should be concentrated

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

Q- Question yourself if you are unselfish

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

R- Real you is already perfect & strong

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

S- Something behind the will which is free

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

T- Take up one idea

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

U- Uphold Your Ideals

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

V- Voice must be known and understood

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

W- We have power to make ourselves

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

X- Examine yourself
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole. Examine yourself. Examine your motives.

Y- You have to grow from the inside out

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Z- Zeal
We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things be achieved..

Thank You Very Much Sompong Yusoontorn