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Swami Vivekananda has been an eternal
source of inspiration for the people of all
ages, races, beliefs and belongings. His
utterings are so very power-packed that they
have the potential to energize a fatigued
mind, shake off a lethargic physique to rise in
action and awaken a desolate soul seeking
strength, solace and salvation.

A small booklet titled Thoughts of Power

containing a compilation of his powerful
quotes that was gifted to me during my
student-years by Swami Harshanandaji of
RIMSE, Mysore, has been my cherished
possession for over three decades now and it
has been the go-to companion for me at times
when I needed confidence, courage and
inspiration the most.

It is in all earnestness to pass on the

inspiration I have been bestowed upon by the
immortal words of this eternal guru that I bring
out this small booklet to you.

Gratefully ever,
Bharath Gopalan

« ☼ »
As I
started
looking,
I found more
and more >>
- Valerie Steele
 Hold the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I
am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and
each day the identification of yourself with the
thought and feeling will grow less, until at last you
can entirely separate yourself from the mind and
actually know it to be apart yourself.

beaware
When this is done, the mind is your
servant to control as you will.
When the mind is conquered, he has
reached the highest stage. (8:48)

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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, and this is the way great spiritual
giants are produced. (1:177)

« ☼ »

.
 Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole
responsibility on your own shoulders, and
know that you are the creator of your own
destiny. All the strength and succor you want
is within yourselves. Therefore, make your
own future.

Whatever you think that you will be. If you

think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you
think yourself strong, strong you will be.

bestrong Be strong, my young friends; that is my

advice to you. You will be nearer to
Heaven through football than through
the study of the Gita. These are bold
words; but I have to say them, for I love
you.

This is the great fact:

Strength is life; weakness is death;
Strengths is felicity, life eternal,
immortal; weakness is constant strain
and misery, weakness is death.

« ☼ »
 In life, there are no
ordinary moments.
Most of us never realize
the most significant
moments of our lives
when they're
happening>>

- Kathleen Magee
 We are responsible for what we are, and
whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the
power to make ourselves.

bepresent If what we are now have been the result of

our past actions, it certainly follows that
whatever we wish to be in future can be
produced by our present actions. (1:31)

« ☼ »
 When you
become quiet, it
just dawns on
you>>
-Thomas Edison
 The bottom of a lake we cannot see,
because its surface is covered with ripples.
It is only possible to catch a glimpse of the
bottom, when the ripples have subsided,

Besilent
and the water is calm. If the water is
muddy or is agitated all the time, the
bottom will not be seen. If it is clear, and
there are no waves, we shall see the
bottom. The bottom of the lake is our own
true Self. (1:202)

« ☼ »
 Almost
everything
comes from
almost nothing
>>
-Henry Frederic Amiel
Knowledge is inherent in man; no
knowledge comes from outside; it is all
inside…
We say Newton discovered gravitation;
was it sitting in anywhere in a corner
waiting for him? It was in his own mind;
the time came and he found it out.
All the knowledge the world has ever
received comes from the mind; the infinite
library of the universe is in your own mind.
The external world is simply the suggestion,
the occasion, which sets you to study your
own mind. (1:28)

« ☼ »
 Look the
world
.

straight in
the eye >>
-Helen Keller
 The monkeys of Varanasi are huge brutes and are
sometimes surly. They now took it into their heads
not to allow me to pass through their street, so they
howled and shrieked and clutched at my feet as I
passed. As they pressed closer, I began to run, but
the faster I ran, the faster came the monkeys and
they began to bite at me. It seemed impossible to
escape, but just then I met a stranger who called

bebold
out to me, "Face the brutes." I turned and faced
the monkeys, and they fell back and finally fled.
That is a lesson for all life — face the
terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the
hardships of life fall back when we cease to
flee before them. If we are ever to gain
freedom, it must be by conquering nature,
never by running away. Cowards never win
victories. We have to fight fear and troubles
and ignorance if we expect them to flee before
us.

« ☼ »
 The unselfish
effort to bring
cheer to others
will be the
beginning of a
happier life for
ourselves>>
- Helen Keller
 The great secret of true success, of true
happiness, is this: the man or woman
who asks for no return, the perfectly
unselfish person, is the most successful.

beunselfish So help whenever you can, but mind

what your motive is. If it is selfish, it will
neither benefit those you help, nor
yourself. If it is unselfish, it will bring
blessings upon them to whom it is given,
and infinite blessings upon you, sure as
you are living.

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If you think you are bound, you
remain bound; you make your
own bondage. If you know that
you are free, you are free this
moment. This is the knowledge,
knowledge of freedom. Freedom
is the goal of all nature. (2:462)
We are free if we would only
believe it, only have faith enough.
You are the soul, free and
eternal, ever free, ever blessed.
Have faith enough and you will
be free in a moment. (6:93)

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Fear never,
fear never,
fear never
forever>>
- Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi
 If there is one word that you find coming
out like a bomb from the Upanishads,
bursting like a bombshell upon masses of
ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness”.
And the only religion that ought to be
taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either
in this world or in the world of religion, it
is true that fear is the sure cause of
degradation and sin. It is the fear that

befearless
brings misery, fear that brings death, fear
that breeds evil. (3:160)

Be not afraid of anything. You will do

marvelous work. It is fearlessness that
brings heaven even in a moment

« ☼ »
 The most
certain sign of
wisdom is
cheerfulness>>
- Michel de Montaigne
 It is the cheerful mind that is persevering.
It is the strong mind that hews its way
through a thousand difficulties.

It is our own mental attitude which makes

becheerful the world what it is for us. Our thought

make things beautiful, our thoughts make
things ugly. The whole world is in our own
minds. Learn to see things in the proper
light

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In the world take always the position of
the giver. Give everything and look for
no return. Give love, give help, give
service, give any little thing you can, but
keep out barter. Make no conditions
and none will be imposed on you. Let
us give out of our own bounty, just as
God gives to us

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 Believe in yourself, and the
rest will fall into place. Have
faith in your own abilities,
work hard, and there is
nothing you cannot
accomplish >>
- Brad Henry
 The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the
greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves
had been more extensively taught and
practiced, I am sure a very large portion of
the evils and miseries that we have would
have vanished.
He is an atheist who does not believe in
himself. The old religions said that he was
an atheist who did not believe in God.

Beconfident The new religion says that he is an atheist

who does not believe in himself.
If you have faith in all the three hundred
and thirty millions of your mythological
gods, and in all the gods which foreigners
have now and again introduced into your
midst, and still have no faith in yourself,
there is no salvation for you.

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Most people have no idea of the
giant capacity we can
immediately command when
we focus all of our resources on
mastering a single area of our
lives>>
- -Tony Robbins
 There is a pretty Indian fable to the effect
that if it rains when the star Svâti is in the
ascendant, and a drop of rain falls into an
oyster, that drop becomes a pearl. The oysters
know this, so they come to the surface when
that star shines, and wait to catch the
precious raindrop. When a drop falls into
them, quickly the oysters close their shells and
dive down to the bottom of the sea, there to
patiently develop the drop into the pearl.

befocused We should be like that. First hear, then

understand, and then, leaving all distractions,
shut your minds to outside influences, and
devote yourselves to developing the truth
within you.... Take one thing up and do it,
and see the end of it, and before you have seen
the end, do not give it up. He who can become
mad with an idea, he alone sees light.

« ☼ »
 After the final no
there comes a Yes,
and on that yes
the future of
world depends >>
-
Wallace
Stevens
 To succeed, you must have a tremendous
perseverance, tremendous will. ‘I will
drink the ocean’, says the persevering soul,
‘at my will, mountains will crumble up.’
Have that sort of energy, that sort of will;
work hard and you will reach the goal.
(1:178)

beunstoppable
Never think there is impossible for the
soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If
there is any sin, this is the only sin- to say
that you are weak, or others are weak
(2:308)
Never say, ‘no’; never say, ‘I cannot’, for
you are infinite. Even time and space are
as nothing compared with your nature.
You can do anything and everything, you
are almighty. (2:300)

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Permanence, perseverance
and persistence in spite of
all obstacles,
discouragements, and
impossibilities:
It is this, that in all things
distinguishes the strong
soul from the weak>>
- Thomas Carlyle
 Never mind failures; they are quite
natural, they are the bty of life – these
failures. What would life be without
them? It would not be worth having if it
were not for struggles. Where would be the

beresilient poetry of life? Never mind the struggles,

the mistakes. I have never heard a cow tell
a lie, but it is only a cow- never a man. So
never mind these failures, these little
backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand
times; and if you fail a thousand times,
make the attempt once more.

« ☼ »
True love begins
when nothing is
looked for in
return>>
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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 the only law of life,
just as you breathe to live.

With love, there is no painful reaction;

love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it
does not, it is not love; it is mistaking
something else for love. When you have
succeeded in loving your husband, your
wife, your children, the whole world, the
universe, in such a manner that there is
no pain or jealousy, no selfish feeling,
then you are in a fit state to unattached.

« ☼ »
 Our deepest fear is not that we
are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond
measure. It is our light, not our
darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to
be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous?' Actually, who are you
not to be? >>
- Marianne Williamson
 Do you know how much energy, how many
powers, how many forces, are still lurking
behind that frame of yours? What scientist
has known all that is in man? Millions of
years have passed since man came here, and
yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers
has been manifested. Therefore, you must
not say that you are weak. How do you
know what possibilities lie behind that

beinfinite degradation on the surface? You know but

little of that which is within you. For behind
you is the ocean of infinite power and
blessedness.
Realize your true nature. That is all there is
to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite
Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything
else is impractical, for everything else will
perish. « ☼ »
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