Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — 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
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
“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
Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is… — 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
To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life. — 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
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India. — 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
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all… — 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
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
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
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements. — 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
Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force… — 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
The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to… — 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 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
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — 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
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
