External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. Swami Vivekananda motivational inspirational way Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma. Swami Vivekananda karma men past There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve. Swami Vivekananda results form matter The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles. Swami Vivekananda principles mind way Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body. Swami Vivekananda superstitions body desire If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. Swami Vivekananda blame praise mind Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares. Swami Vivekananda soul self book I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. Swami Vivekananda dogma long book This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies. Swami Vivekananda voice strength heart Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences Swami Vivekananda yoga secret brain You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds Swami Vivekananda children hands past Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute. Swami Vivekananda absolutes The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle. Swami Vivekananda destroyers creator principles We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else. Swami Vivekananda weakness eye long Every change is being forced upon us. Swami Vivekananda change Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal. Swami Vivekananda despair razors goal Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. Swami Vivekananda path looks world You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good. Swami Vivekananda bricks blame wall One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total. Swami Vivekananda ego self doe Whatever you think, that you will be. Swami Vivekananda thinking
