The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different… — 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
Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — 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
We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — 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
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