Spirit Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

— Swami Vivekananda

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

— Swami Vivekananda

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

— Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical…

— Swami Vivekananda

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter,…

— Swami Vivekananda

The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.

— Swami Vivekananda

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they…

— Swami Vivekananda

This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with…

— Swami Vivekananda

Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made…

— Swami Vivekananda

"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when…

— Swami Vivekananda

If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced…

— Swami Vivekananda

Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if…

— Swami Vivekananda

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We…

— Swami Vivekananda

Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even…

— Swami Vivekananda

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.

— Swami Vivekananda

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within…

— Swami Vivekananda

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life…

— Swami Vivekananda

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit…

— Swami Vivekananda

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no…

— Swami Vivekananda

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and…

— Swami Vivekananda

You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O…

— Swami Vivekananda

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness…

— Swami Vivekananda

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one…

— Swami Vivekananda

Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest.…

— Swami Vivekananda

. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;…

— Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…

— Swami Vivekananda