Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life. — 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
On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite. — 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
