The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities. — 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
Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which… — 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