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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Swami Vivekananda
Desire, Body, Superstitions
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3600, Manonmani Publishers

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Men, Soul
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.718, Manonmani Publishers

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

Swami Vivekananda
Mind, Blame, Praise
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.126, New World Library

I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

Swami Vivekananda
Uplifting, Girl, Country

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Swami Vivekananda
Strength, Blessed, Fate
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Ideas, Hinduism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2056, Manonmani Publishers

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

Swami Vivekananda
Expression, Ideas, Materialism
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3116, Manonmani Publishers

We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.

Swami Vivekananda
Father, Law, Giving
Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.194, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Swami Vivekananda
Memories, Confused, Men

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving, Rewards, Sake
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.72, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

Swami Vivekananda
Marriage, Husband, Wife
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1386, Manonmani Publishers

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

Swami Vivekananda
Christian, Jesus, Book
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

Swami Vivekananda
Wise, Caring, Lions
Babaji Bob Kindler, Annapurna Sarada, Swami Vivekananda, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Kenneth Wapnick (2002). “Nectar #7: The Excellence of Sacrifice and Self-Effort”, p.24, Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Inspiration, Ambition
Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Ideas, Perfect
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.141, Advaita Ashrama

Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

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

No effect of work can be eternal.

Swami Vivekananda
Causes, Eternal, Effects
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.119, editionNEXT.com

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Progress, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda
Giving Up, Ideas, Heaven
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Perfect, Half
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2923, Manonmani Publishers

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Spirit, Infinite
Swami Vivekananda (1966). “Complete Works”

Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Giving Up, Men
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.

Swami Vivekananda
Worship, Manifestation, Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.

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

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

Swami Vivekananda
Mother, Sea, Calm
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3124, Manonmani Publishers

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