You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts… — 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
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths… — 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
Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest… — 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
