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The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Clouds, Sky
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.42, editionNEXT.com

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Men, Divinity
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2149, Manonmani Publishers

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Being Strong, Stay Strong
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Proud, Ashamed
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Country
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2076, Manonmani Publishers

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Hatred, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2639, Manonmani Publishers

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

Swami Vivekananda
Doing Good
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.

Swami Vivekananda
Strength, Real, Views
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.163, editionNEXT.com

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

Swami Vivekananda
Practice, Superstitions, Reason
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.52, Advaita Ashrama

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Hate, Book
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2027, Manonmani Publishers

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

Swami Vivekananda
Fall, Rising, Wave
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.111, editionNEXT.com

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Mind, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.103, Advaita Ashrama

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher, Teaching, Boys
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is the great task to get that faith. Give up the awful disease that is creeping, into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Giving Up, Believe

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Mind, And Love
Swami Vivekananda (1999). “Awakened India”

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Live For Others
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.338, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Men, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.64, Advaita Ashrama

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

Swami Vivekananda
Sky, People, Weak
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.67, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.52, Advaita Ashrama

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
Men, Perfection, Heaven
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2884, Manonmani Publishers

What is this universe but name and form?

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Form, Universe
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.511, Manonmani Publishers

Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving Up, Race, Civilization
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.36, Vivekananda Kendra

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, India, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.166, Advaita Ashrama

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Inspiring, Believe
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.

Swami Vivekananda
Christian, Kindness, Islamic

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