The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Often people enter into things they have not the means to accomplish, with the result that they cheat others to attain their… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I… — 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
When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing,… — 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
