--- title: "7 Cease Quotes By Swami Vivekananda" description: "7 Cease quotes by Swami Vivekananda. Plus more from Swami Vivekananda and more Cease sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/swami-vivekananda-53_cease_give-up-renounce-the-world-now-we-are-li_556932.jpg" --- > [Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/give-up-renounce-the-world-now-we-are-like-dogs-strayed-into-a/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/swami-vivekananda-53_cease_give-up-renounce-the-world-now-we-are-li_556932.jpg) > [To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/to-injure-another-creates-bondage-and-hides-the-truth-negative/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/swami-vivekananda-53_all-things_to-injure-another-creates-bondage-and-hi_918626.jpg) > [It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-may-be-that-i-shall-find-it-good-to-get-outside-of-my-body-to-cast/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/swami-vivekananda-53_body_it-may-be-that-i-shall-find-it-good-to-g_1528084.jpg) > [All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/all-the-forces-that-we-see-in-nature-such-as-gravitation-attraction/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/swami-vivekananda-53_attraction_all-the-forces-that-we-see-in-nature-suc_1739901.jpg) > [Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/thought-ceases-in-meditation-even-the-mind-s-elements-are-quite-quiet/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b82/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_thought-ceases-in-meditation-even-the-mi_2070852.jpg) > [A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/a-perfect-life-is-a-contradiction-in-terms-life-itself-is-a-state-of/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/swami-vivekananda-53_air_a-perfect-life-is-a-contradiction-in-ter_2486083.jpg) > [Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/chemistry-ceases-to-improve-when-one-element-is-found-from-which-all/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa3/swami-vivekananda-53_cases_chemistry-ceases-to-improve-when-one-ele_2694336.jpg) ## Other authors on Cease ## More by Swami Vivekananda > [Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-action-that-helps-us-manifest-our-divine-nature-more-and-more/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Holiness sincerity, and faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/holiness-sincerity-and-faith/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-hindus-have-a-peculiar-slovenliness-in-business-matters-not-being/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Renunciation is in our blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/renunciation-is-in-our-blood/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/let-positive-strong-helpful-thoughts-enter-into-your-brains-from-very/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/where-can-we-go-to-find-god-if-we-cannot-see-him-in-our-own-hearts/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-free-alone-which-never-changes-and-the-unchangeable-alone/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Above all, India is the land of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/above-all-india-is-the-land-of-religion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-awakening-of-the-soul-to-its-bondage-and-its-effort-to-stand-up/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-prana-that-is-manifesting-as-motion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/though-an-atom-is-invisible-unthinkable-yet-in-it-are-the-whole-power/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/nothing-can-be-produced-without-a-cause-and-the-effect-is-but-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/all-the-strength-and-succour-you-want-is-within-yourselves-therefore/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/be-brave-be-strong-be-fearless-once-you-have-taken-up-the-spiritual/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-a-continuity-of-mind-as-the-yogis-call-it-the-mind-is/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cease/swami-vivekananda/#itemlist", "name": "7 Cease Quotes By Swami Vivekananda", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. 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