No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual. — 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
