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There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Swami Vivekananda
Circles, Lines, Straight Lines
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2232, Manonmani Publishers

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one.

Swami Vivekananda
Anything And Everything, Can Do, Within You
"The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

Swami Vivekananda
Next, Beloved, God Life
"Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Errors, Humanity

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Bliss, Infinite
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.114, editionNEXT.com

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 Up, Brave, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything."

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Feet, People
Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Swami Vivekananda
Selfish, Men, He Man
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.113, editionNEXT.com

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Anger, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.83, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Faith, Strong
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Heart, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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, Men, Able
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.76, Manonmani Publishers

Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

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

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Secret, Vedas
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Oneness, Attachment

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

Swami Vivekananda
Philosophy, Book, Psychics
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

Swami Vivekananda
Reading, Reality, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.968, Manonmani Publishers

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Giving Up, Let It Go
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3177, Manonmani Publishers

My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Brother, Cat
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Dog, Long
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

Swami Vivekananda
Focus, Mind, Aspiration
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Swami Vivekananda
Hypocrite, Coward, Becoming
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Health, Love Is

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