The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — 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
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
I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the… — 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
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
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made… — 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
Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited… — 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
To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality… — 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
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
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India. — 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
