Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — 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
The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Those who really want to be Yogis must give up, once for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect… — 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
“But there is yet time to change our ways. Give up all those old discussions, old fights about things which are meaningless,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates. — 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
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
