We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will… — 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… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the… — 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
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — 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
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the… — 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
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