Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us. — 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
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and… — 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,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to… — 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… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in 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
