Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and… — 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
Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — 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
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 one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege. — 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
