You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in… — 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
