Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Goodness

• Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Trying, Three Things

• This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, True Life

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Men, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1085, Manonmani Publishers

• The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Down And, And Love

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.107, Advaita Ashrama

• I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reality, Long, Laughing

  Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

• We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Quality, Lasts

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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