To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be… — 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
Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks… — 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
I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come… — 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
