Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

The highest truth is this: God is present in all beings. They are His multiple forms. There is no other God to seek. . . . It is a man-making religion that we want. . . . Give up these weakening mysticisms, and be strong. . . . For the next fifty years. ... let all other gods disappear from our minds. This is the only God that is awake, our own race, everywhere His hands, everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears; He covers everything. . . . The first of all worships is the worship of those all around us. ... He alone serves God who serves all other beings.

One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee

Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.

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 will is not free—it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect—but there is something behind the will which is free.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

"Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Atman is the support of the universe — whose support do you stand in need of?"

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind.

There will never be a time when we shall not exist.

MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.