Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the… — 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
