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
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — 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
There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that… — 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
