The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely. — 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
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. — 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
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my… — 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
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
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — 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
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought… — 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