Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Inspiration

• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, God

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

• The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Successful

• All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Oneness, Differences

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.136, New World Library

• We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Travel, Inspiration, Reflection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

• 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.

• All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers

• When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Ideas

• Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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

• "Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.8, editionNEXT.com

• Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• 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 meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

• 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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

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

• An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.376, Manonmani Publishers

• If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

• Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Inspiration, Attachment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers

• The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

• Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Exercise, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.15, Advaita Ashrama

• Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers

• This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.66, editionNEXT.com

• With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Mother, Inspiration

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

• The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Inspiration, Ambition

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

• Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.156, Vivekananda Kendra

• Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.143, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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