Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it… — 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
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There are three stages in meditation. The first is what is called Dharana, concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the… — 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
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — 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
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