Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.
A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.
The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.
Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?
Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.
Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.
The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."
The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.
Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.
In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it.
Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.
Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.
