“Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“We think and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonise with our thoughts.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. — 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… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This mind is a part of the universal mind. Each mind is connected with every other mind. And each mind, wherever it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 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
