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
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have… — 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
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God?… — 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
