Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds… — 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
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly… — 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
