If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
