Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — 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
Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in… — 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
No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that… — 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
