Spiritual Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

— Swami Vivekananda

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

— Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality is the science of the Soul.

— Swami Vivekananda

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

— Swami Vivekananda

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

— Swami Vivekananda

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think…

— Swami Vivekananda

Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be…

— Swami Vivekananda

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help…

— Swami Vivekananda

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for…

— Swami Vivekananda

If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst…

— Swami Vivekananda

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social…

— 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

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing…

— Swami Vivekananda

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of…

— Swami Vivekananda

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who…

— Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this…

— Swami Vivekananda

The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship…

— 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

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.…

— Swami Vivekananda

To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…

— Swami Vivekananda

“One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee”

— Swami vivekananda

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads.

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

— Swami Vivekananda

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

— Swami Vivekananda

Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life…

— Swami Vivekananda

Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any…

— Swami Vivekananda

Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you…

— Swami Vivekananda

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all…

— Swami Vivekananda

Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy…

— Swami Vivekananda

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low…

— Swami Vivekananda

The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is…

— Swami Vivekananda