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Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Swami Vivekananda
Patience, Perseverance, Fire
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1763, Manonmani Publishers

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

Swami Vivekananda
Self, Mind, Atman

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Pride, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Sides, Materialism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.446, Manonmani Publishers

Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Drama, Eye
Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda
Forgiveness, Coward, Weakness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Motivational, Astrology
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Evil, Sides

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.

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

See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!

Swami Vivekananda
Air, Atmosphere, Holiness
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

Swami Vivekananda
Other Worlds, Giving, Heaven

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Mirrors, He Man
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfection, Driving
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.247, New World Library

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings

Swami Vivekananda
Oneness, Numbers, Perception
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2402, Manonmani Publishers

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, People, Scripture
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

Spirituality is the science of the Soul.

Swami Vivekananda
God, Spiritual, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.72, editionNEXT.com

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

Swami Vivekananda
Blessed, Grateful, Exercise
Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Done, Work Done
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.66, Vivekananda Kendra

The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Heart, Night

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

Swami Vivekananda
Selfish, Palaces, Rags
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.48, Advaita Ashrama

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Cat, Talking, Soul

You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it.

Swami Vivekananda
Ideas, Whole, Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.382, Manonmani Publishers

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Swami Vivekananda
God, Spiritual, Soul

I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Believe, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3224, Manonmani Publishers

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