From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same. — 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
There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then… — 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
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it… — 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