First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this… — 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
Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power.… — 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
