May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe. Swami Vivekananda perceivesoulbelieve Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal. Swami Vivekananda differencesignorancefaith The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet. Swami Vivekananda idol-worshipgoneworld Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart. Swami Vivekananda lightheartthinking There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship. Swami Vivekananda soulperfectiontwo Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are. Swami Vivekananda strengthmenreality Business is business, no child's play. Swami Vivekananda businessplaychildren Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. Swami Vivekananda meditationinspirationpractice What power is higher than the power of purity? Swami Vivekananda higherpuritypower It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else. Swami Vivekananda desireheavenideas The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes. Swami Vivekananda miseryfaceslong Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect. Swami Vivekananda cause-and-effectbondagecauses Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result. Swami Vivekananda indiastudylaw Spirituality is the science of the Soul. Swami Vivekananda soulspiritualgod If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature. Swami Vivekananda freedomgoalthinking The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it. Swami Vivekananda perfectionmenheaven Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real. Swami Vivekananda illusionrealizingreal We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave. Swami Vivekananda giving-upbravemind Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. Swami Vivekananda despondencymay If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that. Swami Vivekananda perseverancemistakepatience
