Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. — 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
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must… — 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
Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,… — 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
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your… — 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
