The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIt is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAFeel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANeither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThere is no end to the power a man can obtain.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAHe whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEverything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThey only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAI have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMind 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA