How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else… — 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
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and… — 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
