The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 2

WORK AND ITS SECRECT

Swami Vivekananda

“We have to take care of ourselves—that much we can do—and give up minding others for a time. Let us perfect the means; the ends will take care of itself. For the world can be good and pure only if our lives are good and pure. It is an effect, and we are the means. Therefore, let us purify ourselves. Let us make ourselves perfect.”
“Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavor to accomplish it; that is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals which he can never hope to accomplish. For instance, we take a child and at once give him the task of walking twenty miles. Either the little one dies, or one in a thousand crawls the twenty miles to reach the end exhausted and half-dead. That is like what we generally try to do with the world.”

“All the men and women in any society are not of the same mind, capacity, or of the same power to do things; they must have different ideals, and we have no right to sneer at any ideal. Let everyone do the best he can for realizing his own ideal. Nor is it right that I should be judged by your standard or you by mine. The apple tree should not be judged by the standard of the oak, nor the oak by that of the apple. To judge the apple tree you must take the apple standard, and for the oak its own standard.”


We are normaly so anxious and worried by what's happening around us, that we forget we are also contributes.... Like what Swami Vivekananda have said, let's change ourselve first and the rest will be taken care.....

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