Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is… — 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
