Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I… — 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
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing,… — 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
