Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — 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
Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. — 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. — 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
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
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
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps… — 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
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
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
Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if… — 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
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
Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — 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
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
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we… — 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
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
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
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the… — 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
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
If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you… — 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
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
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall… — 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
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
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
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and… — 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
