Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDALet him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAI do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABe an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADo not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIf you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAReal love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhy are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAYou must all pay attention to your health first.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDATalk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAMan always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA