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
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — 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
