Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — 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
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came… — 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