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Voice of Vedas
Institution that nurtures families from cradle to golden years
Voice of Vedas Cultural Sabha Inc. is an institution that nurtures families from the Cradle to Golden Years. It's comprised of Vishnu Mandir, Montessori School, Senior's Home, and Global Care Outreach Program. Canadian Museum of Indian Civilization is a sister organization of Voice of Vedas Cultural Sabha Inc.
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Words of Wisdom
- Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely. - Henry Ford
- One of the biggest mistakes we make is assuming that other people think the way we think.
- Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own ears.
- One day or day one. It's your decision.
- If someone tells you, you can't they're showing you their limits. Not Yours!
- If you were able to believe in Santa Calus for like 8 years, you can believe in yourself for like 5 minutes.
- Listen and silent are spelled with the same letters. Think about it.
- There are people who would love to have your bad days.
- Train your mind to see the good in every situation.
- Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
- Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.
- Do not settle for a limited experience of life. Where there is a limitation, there is a possiility of breaking it. -Sadhguru
- Your home should not be a place to be stuck in, but a place to grow in. - Sadhguru
- Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely inks in, will you make the necessary changes. - Sadhguru
- Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - OG Mandino
- Try everything. And if you don't like something, it is because you tried it, not because you dismissed it. - Chris Rock
- Write on your heart that evry day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…. And the rest of the trip is a whole lot of single steps too! - Jim Bouchard
- Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. - Alan Cohen
- A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antonie De Saint-Exupery
- Maybe this year, we ought to walk into the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws but for potential. - Ellen Goodman
- The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates
- There is something beautiful about having the chance to rewrite your future. - Crystal Gentilello
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but we often look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
- If you care for people around you, you must make yourself into a person they enjoy being with. - Sadhguru
- You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no teacher but your own soul. - Swami Vivekananda
- Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved. - Swami Vivekananda
- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. - Swami Vivekananda
- Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. - Swami Vivekananda
- They alone live, who live for others. - Swami Vivekananda
- The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. - Swami Vivekananda
- All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls. - Swami Vivekananda
- Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God. - Swami Vivekananda
- Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. - Swami Vivekananda
- The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free. - Swami Vivekananda
- There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point. - Swami Vivekananda
- This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. - Swami Vivekananda
- This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose. - Swami Vivekananda
- Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God. - Swami Vivekananda
- I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. - Swami Vivekananda
- Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. - Swami Vivekananda
- 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." - Swami Vivekananda
- First, believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything. - Swami Vivekananda
- "Face the brutes." 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid? - Swami Vivekananda
- Desire, ignorance, and inequality — this is the trinity of bondage. - Swami Vivekananda
- Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. - Swami Vivekananda
- Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. - Swami Vivekananda
- This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells—that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman). - Swami Vivekananda
- As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate. First get rid of the delusion 'I am the body', then only will we want real knowledge. - Swami Vivekananda
- A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. - Swami Vivekananda
- 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being. - Swami Vivekananda
- So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire. - Swami Vivekananda
- However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite. - Swami Vivekananda
- This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. - Swami Vivekananda
- When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. - Swami Vivekananda
- The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. - Swami Vivekananda
- The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us. - Swami Vivekananda
- You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute. - Swami Vivekananda
- We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. - Swami Vivekananda
- Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience. Then alone can great deeds be accomplished. - Swami Vivekananda
- The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! - Swami Vivekananda
- Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back. - Swami Vivekananda
- You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. - Swami Vivekananda
- Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality. - Swami Vivekananda
- 'Comfort' is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being 'comfortable'. - Swami Vivekananda
- We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. - Swami Vivekananda
- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
- Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. - Swami Vivekananda
- It is our own mental attitude which makes 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe. - Swami Vivekananda
- Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. - Swami Vivekananda
- Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. - Swami Vivekananda
- 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. - Swami Vivekananda
- It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity. - Swami Vivekananda
- We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. - Swami Vivekananda
- Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. - Swami Vivekananda
- We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. - Swami Vivekananda
- Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love. - Swami Vivekananda
- Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse. - Swami Vivekananda
- All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. - Swami Vivekananda
- 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'. - Swami Vivekananda
- The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. - Swami Vivekananda
- Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. - Swami Vivekananda
- It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties. - Swami Vivekananda
- Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. - Swami Vivekananda
- Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. - Swami Vivekananda
- That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. - Swami Vivekananda
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