Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality. — 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
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
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
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — 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
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality… — 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
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will… — 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
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — 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
“All these small ideas that I am a man or a woman, Sick or healthy, strong or weak Or that I hate… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Those who really want to be Yogis must give up, once for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a… — 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
![“If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. [...] man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f69/swami-vivekananda-53_divine-nature_if-a-man-can-realize-his-divine-nature-w_1666946.jpg)
