We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do… — 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
