The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses… — 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