From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many… — 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
Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used… — 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 Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
