. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. .… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in… — 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
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one can see God with his naked eyes judging is/she God/Goddess only after attaining spiritual orders from God/Goddess, until that any… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such… — 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