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Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Firsts
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2031, Manonmani Publishers

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Meditation, Mind
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Thinking, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Nerves, Fine

A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

Swami Vivekananda
Taken, Iron, Feet
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2281, Manonmani Publishers

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Swami Vivekananda
Law, Differences, Religion
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1753, Manonmani Publishers

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Civilization, Progress

The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Water, Missing

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

Swami Vivekananda
Practice, Training, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2519, Manonmani Publishers

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
Blessed, Personality, And Love
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.148, Vivekananda Kendra

Differentiation is in name and form only.

Swami Vivekananda
Names, Differentiation, Form

If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Strong, Mean
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.400, Manonmani Publishers

All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations.

Swami Vivekananda
Independent, Light, Self
Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Mirrors, Dust
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3132, Manonmani Publishers

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.

Swami Vivekananda
Spirit, Lord, Form

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Bounty
Source: tamilandvedas.com

It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Children, Land
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1196, Manonmani Publishers

Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Father, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Swami Vivekananda
Paris, Fountain, Fountain Head
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2469, Manonmani Publishers

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Mean, Ideas
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Individual Happiness, Welfare
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4615, Manonmani Publishers

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Voice, Sage
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.65, Advaita Ashrama

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

Swami Vivekananda
Matter, Waste, No Matter What

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Waiting, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (1994). “Awakened India”

Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love

Swami Vivekananda
Light, Arms, Embrace
Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.93, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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