There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your… — 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
Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — 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
We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — 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
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain. — 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
