Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment. — 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
