In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. — 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
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
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord. — 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
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of… — 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
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there… — 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
Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us… — 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
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature… — 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
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of… — 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
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
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
