He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world… — 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 Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round… — 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
No one step back, that is the idea… Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their… — 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
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — 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
Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — 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
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
