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
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Man is a slave of nature, and slave eternally he has got to remain. We call it Karma. Karma means law, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“so even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — 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. Have faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — 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