Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe,… — 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
No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will… — 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
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share