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 Image
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“When we begin to work earnestly in the world, nature gives us blows right and left and soon enables us to find… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“so even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Man is a slave of nature, and slave eternally he has got to remain. We call it Karma. Karma means law, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — 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
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“As all the rivers of the world constantly pour their waters into the ocean, but the ocean’s grand, majestic nature remains undisturbed… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the… — 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
My nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — 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