Moments Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

The moment you fear, you are nobody.

— Swami Vivekananda

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

— Swami Vivekananda

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

— Swami Vivekananda

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as…

— Swami Vivekananda

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of…

— Swami Vivekananda

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is…

— 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

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth…

— Swami Vivekananda

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,…

— Swami Vivekananda

The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them…

— Swami Vivekananda

We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -…

— Swami Vivekananda

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love…

— Swami Vivekananda

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round…

— Swami Vivekananda

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster…

— Swami Vivekananda

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become…

— Swami Vivekananda

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every…

— Swami Vivekananda

Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he…

— Swami Vivekananda

God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall…

— Swami Vivekananda

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next…

— Swami Vivekananda

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing,…

— Swami Vivekananda

If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for…

— Swami Vivekananda

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say,…

— 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

When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at…

— Swami Vivekananda

When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here…

— Swami Vivekananda

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let…

— 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

We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome…

— 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