One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature… — 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
There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. — 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