"God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life." ― Swami Vivekananda Topic(s): God More From Swami Vivekananda "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." "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." "We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." More In God "The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."― Socrates "When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it’s insulting to God."― Sophia Bush "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."― Galileo Galilei