The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition. — 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
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . . — 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
Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — 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