Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the… — 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
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — 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