Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. — 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
Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. — 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
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
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
On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite. — 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
“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
Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with… — 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
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
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
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes… — 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
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the… — 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
“The tender plant of spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals.… — 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