Meditation Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

— Swami Vivekananda

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

— Swami Vivekananda

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

— Swami Vivekananda

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

— Swami Vivekananda

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

— Swami Vivekananda

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

— Swami Vivekananda

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

— Swami Vivekananda

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been…

— Swami Vivekananda

You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength

— Swami Vivekananda

"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

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain…

— Swami Vivekananda

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary…

— Swami Vivekananda

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own…

— Swami Vivekananda

In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such…

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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

First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action…

— Swami Vivekananda

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It…

— Swami Vivekananda

Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it…

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why…

— Swami Vivekananda

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and…

— Swami Vivekananda

By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest…

— Swami Vivekananda

“There are three stages in meditation. The first is what is called Dharana, concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to…

— Swami Vivekananda

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It…

— Swami Vivekananda

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…

— Swami Vivekananda

You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation…

— Swami Vivekananda

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

— Swami Vivekananda

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

— Swami Vivekananda

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

— Swami Vivekananda

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

— Swami Vivekananda

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to…

— Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

— Swami Vivekananda

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

— Swami Vivekananda

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one…

— Swami Vivekananda

See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty…

— Swami Vivekananda