Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. — 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
