Swami Vivekananda - London Photo series

Swamiji had a deep and subtle influence on the hearts and minds of the English people. It was such characteristics as these—his immense personal magnetism, his directness, his lucidity, his vision—which gave convincing force to his utterances and bound indissolubly to himself large groups of the very finest and the most devout disciples.38 ❊ ❊ ❊ The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. . . . All will in the end be made perfect. Say, day and night, “Come up, my brothers! You are the infinite ocean of purity! Be God! Manifest as God!” (CW [1977] 8:228)