If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of… — 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