Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Concentration

• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

• The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

• The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Keys, Focus, House

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.67, editionNEXT.com

• He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Cooking, Mind

• High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Achievement, Etc

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.15, Advaita Ashrama

• How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Blow, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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