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There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Cocoons, Helping
Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

Swami Vivekananda
Weak
Source: tamilandvedas.com

The body cannot be the soul.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Body, Human Body

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Mind, May
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2212, Manonmani Publishers

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Swami Vivekananda
World, This World, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2609, Manonmani Publishers

Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one.

Swami Vivekananda
Stars, Moon, Trying
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2496, Manonmani Publishers

Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Mean, Support
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Swami Vivekananda
Powerful, Mind, Body
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

Swami Vivekananda
Taken, Fighting, Years

The earth is enjoyed by heroes

Swami Vivekananda
Hero, Earth, Enjoyed
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.47, Advaita Ashrama

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

Swami Vivekananda
Rising Up, Ego, Cobras
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

The Absolute can never be thought of.

Swami Vivekananda
Absolutes

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

Swami Vivekananda
Body, Force, Human Body
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.222, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

Swami Vivekananda
Karma, Fate, Able

Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

Swami Vivekananda
Dog, Mistake, Struggle
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Firsts, Young
Source: tamilandvedas.com

We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda
Attitude, People, Peaceful
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.26, Advaita Ashrama

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

Swami Vivekananda
Glasses, Heaven, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

Swami Vivekananda
Ocean, Consciousness, Infinite

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.

Swami Vivekananda
Fighting, Personality, Support

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

Swami Vivekananda
Light, Darkness

If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.

Swami Vivekananda
Hurt, May, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.82, Advaita Ashrama

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Coward, Running Away
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Time
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2054, Manonmani Publishers

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Strong, Ocean
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.205, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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