Doe Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

— Swami Vivekananda

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if…

— Swami Vivekananda

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a…

— Swami Vivekananda

"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest…

— Swami Vivekananda

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

— Swami Vivekananda

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

— Swami Vivekananda

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

— Swami Vivekananda

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the…

— Swami Vivekananda

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so…

— Swami Vivekananda

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,…

— Swami Vivekananda

You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of…

— Swami Vivekananda

The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This…

— Swami Vivekananda

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens…

— Swami Vivekananda

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They…

— Swami Vivekananda

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that…

— Swami Vivekananda

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does…

— Swami Vivekananda

Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same…

— Swami Vivekananda

Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I…

— Swami Vivekananda

After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one…

— Swami Vivekananda

As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…

— Swami Vivekananda

Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he…

— Swami Vivekananda

The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we…

— Swami Vivekananda

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the…

— Swami Vivekananda

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

— Swami Vivekananda

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

— Swami Vivekananda

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or…

— Swami Vivekananda

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

— Swami Vivekananda

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any…

— Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

— Swami Vivekananda

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed,…

— Swami Vivekananda