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
To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force… — 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
