This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if… — 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
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only… — 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
He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the… — 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