All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World... — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there… — 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
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture… — 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
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