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Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Swami Vivekananda
Animal, Habit, Behinds

To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Negative, Want, Conquer
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3176, Manonmani Publishers

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Giving Up, Thinking

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Lying, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Giving Up, Anger
Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

Swami Vivekananda
Foundation, Spirit, Worship
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Men, Burning
Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Want, Masters
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3176, Manonmani Publishers

Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.

Swami Vivekananda
Divinity, Manifest, Within You
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.19, Advaita Ashrama

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Principles, Ears
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, People, Lazy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3599, Manonmani Publishers

What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, World, Spirituality
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2552, Manonmani Publishers

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.82, editionNEXT.com

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda
Should Have, Iron, Mind

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Swami Vivekananda
Rain, Book, Reading
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.920, Manonmani Publishers

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Suffering, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.108, editionNEXT.com

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Swami Vivekananda
Suffering, Faults, Reap
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.361, Manonmani Publishers

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Evil, Soul

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

Swami Vivekananda
Suffering, Misery, Undone
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Perfect, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Human Beings
Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc

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
Freedom, Thinking, Goal
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.878, Manonmani Publishers

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Swami Vivekananda
Meditation, Done, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

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