Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome… — 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
