Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the… — 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
He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — 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
I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body. — 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
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.” — 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
According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,… — 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
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
