Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — 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