Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Selfishness

• All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, Inspiring, Selfish

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2076, Manonmani Publishers

• Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Selfishness, Causes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

• [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Desire, Selfishness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.432, Manonmani Publishers

• The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Differences, Knowledge And Power

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.102, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Color, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

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