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Self Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This…
- Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little…
- Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
- Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in…
- Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time…
- This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our…
- Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.
- All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated…
- Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is…
- Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is…
- One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He…
- Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment…
- The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is…
- There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react…
- Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to…
- Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the…
- Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.
- Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done;…
- We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the…
- Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes,…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden