--- title: "13 Internals Quotes By Swami Vivekananda" description: "13 Internals quotes by Swami Vivekananda. Plus more from Swami Vivekananda and more Internals sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/swami-vivekananda-53_bounds_internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-ma_2891673.jpg" --- > [Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-matter-are-in-time-and-space/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/swami-vivekananda-53_bounds_internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-ma_2891673.jpg) > [Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/man-is-man-so-long-as-he-is-struggling-to-rise-above-nature-and-this/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/swami-vivekananda-53_human-beings_man-is-man-so-long-as-he-is-struggling-t_2409743.jpg) > [External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/external-practices-have-value-only-as-helps-to-develop-internal-purity/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/swami-vivekananda-53_helping_external-practices-have-value-only-as-he_2401455.jpg) > [He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/he-who-has-conquered-the-internal-nature-controls-the-whole-universe/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/swami-vivekananda-53_conquered_he-who-has-conquered-the-internal-nature_2746934.jpg) > [The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-finer-is-always-the-cause-the-grosser-the-effect-so-the-external/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/swami-vivekananda-53_causes_the-finer-is-always-the-cause-the-grosse_2528522.jpg) > [External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/external-motion-we-call-action-internal-motion-is-human-thought/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/swami-vivekananda-53_action_external-motion-we-call-action-internal_1024667.jpg) > [One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/one-possessing-vairagya-does-not-understand-by-atman-the-individual/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/swami-vivekananda-53_atman_one-possessing-vairagya-does-not-underst_1925296.jpg) > [No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/no-one-is-ever-really-taught-by-another-each-of-us-has-to-teach/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d37/swami-vivekananda-53_education_no-one-is-ever-really-taught-by-another_2160647.jpg) > [The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-body-is-the-external-coating-and-the-mind-is-the-internal-coating/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/475/swami-vivekananda-53_atman_the-body-is-the-external-coating-and-the_1718121.jpg) > [According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/according-to-this-philosophy-each-man-consists-of-three-parts-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/swami-vivekananda-53_atman_according-to-this-philosophy-each-man-co_3061779.jpg) > [Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/each-atom-is-trying-to-fly-off-from-its-centre-in-the-internal-world/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/741/swami-vivekananda-53_atoms_each-atom-is-trying-to-fly-off-from-its_299299.jpg) > [Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/each-soul-is-potentially-divine-the-goal-is-to-manifest-this-divinity/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/swami-vivekananda-53_book_each-soul-is-potentially-divine-the-goal_639685.jpg) > [It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature… This conquering of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-good-and-very-grand-to-conquer-external-nature-but-grander/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/swami-vivekananda-53_conquer_it-is-good-and-very-grand-to-conquer-ext_2604163.jpg) ## Other authors on Internals ## More by Swami Vivekananda > [Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-action-that-helps-us-manifest-our-divine-nature-more-and-more/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Holiness sincerity, and faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/holiness-sincerity-and-faith/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-hindus-have-a-peculiar-slovenliness-in-business-matters-not-being/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Renunciation is in our blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/renunciation-is-in-our-blood/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/let-positive-strong-helpful-thoughts-enter-into-your-brains-from-very/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/where-can-we-go-to-find-god-if-we-cannot-see-him-in-our-own-hearts/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-free-alone-which-never-changes-and-the-unchangeable-alone/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Above all, India is the land of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/above-all-india-is-the-land-of-religion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-awakening-of-the-soul-to-its-bondage-and-its-effort-to-stand-up/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-prana-that-is-manifesting-as-motion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/though-an-atom-is-invisible-unthinkable-yet-in-it-are-the-whole-power/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/nothing-can-be-produced-without-a-cause-and-the-effect-is-but-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/all-the-strength-and-succour-you-want-is-within-yourselves-therefore/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/be-brave-be-strong-be-fearless-once-you-have-taken-up-the-spiritual/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-a-continuity-of-mind-as-the-yogis-call-it-the-mind-is/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internals/swami-vivekananda/#itemlist", "name": "13 Internals Quotes By Swami Vivekananda", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-matter-are-in-time-and-space/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/swami-vivekananda-53_bounds_internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-ma_2891673.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/swami-vivekananda-53_bounds_internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-ma_2891673.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/swami-vivekananda-53_bounds_internal-and-external-nature-mind-and-ma_2891673.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/man-is-man-so-long-as-he-is-struggling-to-rise-above-nature-and-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/swami-vivekananda-53_human-beings_man-is-man-so-long-as-he-is-struggling-t_2409743.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/swami-vivekananda-53_human-beings_man-is-man-so-long-as-he-is-struggling-t_2409743.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/swami-vivekananda-53_human-beings_man-is-man-so-long-as-he-is-struggling-t_2409743.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/external-practices-have-value-only-as-helps-to-develop-internal-purity/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/swami-vivekananda-53_helping_external-practices-have-value-only-as-he_2401455.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/swami-vivekananda-53_helping_external-practices-have-value-only-as-he_2401455.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/swami-vivekananda-53_helping_external-practices-have-value-only-as-he_2401455.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/he-who-has-conquered-the-internal-nature-controls-the-whole-universe/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/swami-vivekananda-53_conquered_he-who-has-conquered-the-internal-nature_2746934.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/swami-vivekananda-53_conquered_he-who-has-conquered-the-internal-nature_2746934.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/swami-vivekananda-53_conquered_he-who-has-conquered-the-internal-nature_2746934.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. 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