Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life. Swami Vivekananda fightingsimplestruggle Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end. Swami Vivekananda formends The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Swami Vivekananda motivationalinspirationalthinking We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. Swami Vivekananda divinityblamefate Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. Swami Vivekananda bodystrongmind When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being. Swami Vivekananda whole-lifeworshipthinking Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle. Swami Vivekananda circleshaterunning Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe. Swami Vivekananda never-lose-faithfaith-in-yourselfcan-do Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. Swami Vivekananda workmotivationalinspirational Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves. Swami Vivekananda reasonmayteacher 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 selfishinspiringlove Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all. Swami Vivekananda karmapainmother The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others. Swami Vivekananda yogahelping-othersgiving In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. Swami Vivekananda enlighteningbrainheart When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere. Swami Vivekananda lightimaginationuse Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. Swami Vivekananda working-itmomentsheaven All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda eyemotivationalinspirational Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building. Swami Vivekananda heartsonjesus Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. Swami Vivekananda menbelievebook Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion Swami Vivekananda doing-gooduniversal
