When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“[Krishna answers:] “The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
THE Lord is great! - He will not allow me to become a hypocrite. Now let what is in come out. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. — 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