He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe. — 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
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
Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and… — 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
If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord"… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it… — 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
Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation… — 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
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — 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 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
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. — 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
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
Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and… — 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
When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am… — 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