In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful — 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
The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — 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
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
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
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political… — 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
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is… — 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 first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy… — 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
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
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
