There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous. — 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
Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India… — 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
There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path… — 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
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
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The… — 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
