Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it… — 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