This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — 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
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
