Thursday, October 25, 2018

Three Things for Great Achievements

Three things are necessary for great achievements. 
First, feel from the heart. What is in the intellect or reason? 
It goes a few steps and there it stops. But through the heart comes inspiration. Love opens the most impossible gates; love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe. 
Feel, therefore, my would-be reformers, my would-be patriots! … …

You may feel, ... but instead of spending your energies in frothy talk, have you found any way out, any practical solution, some help instead of condemnation, some sweet words to soothe their [poor Indian masses] miseries, to bring them out of this living death?

Yet that is not all. 
Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right? … … 
Have you got that steadfastness? 

If you have these three things, each one of you will work miracles. You need not write in the newspapers, you need not go about lecturing; your very face will shine. 

           - Swami Vivekananda, 
           Address at Victoria Hall Madras, 
            Lectures From Colombo to Almora


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