One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — 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
Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide… — 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
