There is no other teacher but your own soul.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThere is no other teacher but your own soul.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAOne may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
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 VIVEKANANDANo one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
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 VIVEKANANDAYour success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAHe who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAWhen a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAHe who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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 VIVEKANANDANone of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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 VIVEKANANDANever say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA