Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us

— Swami Vivekananda

Thoughts are living things - they travel far.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“We think and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonise with our thoughts.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

— Swami Vivekananda

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

“A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

— Swami Vivekananda

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

— Swami Vivekananda

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening…

— Swami Vivekananda

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes…

— 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

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am…

— Swami Vivekananda

“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts…

— Swami Vivekananda

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why…

— Swami Vivekananda

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control,…

— Swami Vivekananda

This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control.…

— Swami Vivekananda

To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at…

— Swami Vivekananda

Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed,…

— Swami Vivekananda

“This mind is a part of the universal mind. Each mind is connected with every other mind. And each mind, wherever it…

— Swami Vivekananda

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these…

— Swami Vivekananda

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I…

— Swami Vivekananda

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the…

— Swami Vivekananda