None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. Swami Vivekananda More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda More Quotes From Swami Vivekananda The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. Swami Vivekananda divinity passion can-do Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself Swami Vivekananda grateful able men Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done. Swami Vivekananda body done perfection If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. Swami Vivekananda judging character men The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. Swami Vivekananda being-true have-faith inspiring If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. Swami Vivekananda finite absolutes mind The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge. Swami Vivekananda soul goal men The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. Swami Vivekananda charity animal men The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either. Swami Vivekananda velocity doe rivers What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against. Swami Vivekananda encouragement evil names Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish. Swami Vivekananda soul spiritual god Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality. Swami Vivekananda motivational inspirational reality Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance. Swami Vivekananda deliverance absolutes realising Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice. Swami Vivekananda down-and practice may I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it. Swami Vivekananda different running people Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. Swami Vivekananda used power evil The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments Swami Vivekananda and-love personality blessed If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. Swami Vivekananda mountain mind motivational The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. Swami Vivekananda existence simple world Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great. Swami Vivekananda intelligent heart men
