Swami Vivekananda quote: "IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ...
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thou...
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The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no retur...
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoug...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no o...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental stat...
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at...
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of ev...
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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind ...
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May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Budd...
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External nature is only internal nature writ large.
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In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of every...
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no o...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and...
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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reve...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

… an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says,...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be g...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankin...
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Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; th...
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When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & B...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
T...
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Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

MY nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything....
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

For every Buddha who speaks, twenty five die unknown.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

« Le karma est l'éternelle affirmation de la liberté humaine... Nos pensées, nos paroles & nos...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of cha...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, bu...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

When I asked god for peace, he showed me how to help others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reac...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Anythin That Makes You Weak Physically, Intellectually And Spiritually, reject As Poison .
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monke...
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The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is the search for freedom--and ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

I leave none bound, I take no bonds.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beaut...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Religion, the great milch cow, has given many kicks, but never mind,it gives a great deal of milk.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of scienc...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna. I am in every religion as the thre...
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God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted , He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

You are the creator of your own destiny
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

WE see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fea...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

To succeed,you must have tremendous perseverance,tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean" says the ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are pass...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

They alone live, who live for others.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wro...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sid...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

But there is yet time to change our ways. Give up all those old discussions, old fights about things...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not be...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA , RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANS, SARDA DEVI

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those lo...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures,...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only beca...
RADHANATH SWAMI

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobil...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep ou...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
RADHANATH SWAMI

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism sur...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxi...
RADHANATH SWAMI

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmou...
RADHANATH SWAMI

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War w...
RADHANATH SWAMI

In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that ...
RADHANATH SWAMI

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inc...
RADHANATH SWAMI

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I di...
RADHANATH SWAMI

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affect...
RADHANATH SWAMI

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of m...
RADHANATH SWAMI

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
RADHANATH SWAMI

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
RADHANATH SWAMI

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously towa...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powe...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind&#...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and re...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for actio...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to al...
SWAMI RAMDAS

Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the m...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power....
SWAMI RAMDAS

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
SWAMI RAMDAS

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles...
SWAMI RAMDAS

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA

Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them....
SWAMI BRAHMANADA

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Su...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA

Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, uncond...
SWAMI OMKARANANDA

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regre...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle t...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of succes...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within u...
SWAMI RAMDAS

All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is univer...
SWAMI RAMDAS

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tra...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illi...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of th...
RADHANATH SWAMI

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...
RADHANATH SWAMI

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a...
RADHANATH SWAMI

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We c...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it ...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. I...
RADHANATH SWAMI

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an at...
RADHANATH SWAMI

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritu...
RADHANATH SWAMI

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separa...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. B...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch a...
RADHANATH SWAMI

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.
SWAMI SAHAJANAND

Évidemment, nous devons prendre le monde tel qu’il est, car s’il n’est pas en notre pouvoir d...
SWAMI RAMDAS

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us cele...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Cultivate discrimination between the Real and the unreal, and you will know whte hollowness of the p...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Make a firm resolve. BE earnest. Be vigilant. Be advancing. March forward! O heroic soldier.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Little acts make great actions.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

The greatest obstacles to Self-realisation are desire for property, desire for wealth and desire for...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Divine Life is a life of love, wisdom and light.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Swami Sivananda O Man! O ignorant man! O arrogant, impertinent man! You have wasted your life-time. ...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Strive, strive, strive. This is the sacred Mantra to success in everything.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Nothing is lost when the candle burns. No spiritual effort goes in vain.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Make discrimination-cum-non-attachment your sword to cut the tree of Samsara(the karmic cycle of bir...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

If you can get over the thirst for carnal pleasures in life, you have almost conquered all your enem...
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Seek the Immortal, All-blissful Soul within. You will enjoy everlasting happiness and peace.
SWAMI SIVANANDA

Life is like photography. You use the negative to develop.
SWAMI BEYONDANANDA

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. E...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around...
ANNAMALAI SWAMI

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losin...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind....
SWAMI SIVANANDA

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