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
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
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can… — 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
Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side… — 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
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
In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give… — 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
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
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
Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side… — 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
