Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said,… — Ram Dass 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
The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot… — 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
In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — 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
You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be.… — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the… — 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
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and… — Roger Zelazny 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
