The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThey only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDADependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIf you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANone of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAAstrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIt is faith that makes a lion of a man.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAIshvara 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAOur own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThere is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDALearn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAEverything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANeither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDABlame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
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 VIVEKANANDA