No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. — 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
