# Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Type: #book - ASIN: B073GYW7W2 - Authors: [[Swami Vivekananda]] - Highlights - Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. - This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. - 1. You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side — you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature — you can only take away obstructions. 18. As soon as you make - A true Christian is a true Hindu, and a true Hindu is a true Christian. - We do not or cannot see the painful parts in objects, we are charmed with only the pleasurable portion; and, thus grasping the pleasurable, we unwittingly draw in the painful. - 1. Whosoever seeks pleasure in objects will get it, but he must take the pain with it. - 1. Mental pleasures are greatly superior to physical joys. Mental pains are more poignant than physical tortures. - 1. The power of thought, of looking far away into the future, and the power of memory, of recalling the past to the present, make us live in heaven; they make us live in hell also. 17. The - Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. - This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. - 17\. You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side — you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature — you can only take away obstructions. 18. As soon as you make - A true Christian is a true Hindu, and a true Hindu is a true Christian. - We do not or cannot see the painful parts in objects, we are charmed with only the pleasurable portion; and, thus grasping the pleasurable, we unwittingly draw in the painful. - 10\. Whosoever seeks pleasure in objects will get it, but he must take the pain with it. - 15\. Mental pleasures are greatly superior to physical joys. Mental pains are more poignant than physical tortures. - 16\. The power of thought, of looking far away into the future, and the power of memory, of recalling the past to the present, make us live in heaven; they make us live in hell also. 17. The - Notes -