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Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Talking, Our Society
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.13, editionNEXT.com

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

Swami Vivekananda
Perfect, Charity
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

All power is His and within His command.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Command
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.63, Advaita Ashrama

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

Swami Vivekananda
Power, Waiting, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2630, Manonmani Publishers

Superhuman power is not strong enough.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Power, Enough
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.479, Manonmani Publishers

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

Swami Vivekananda
Independent, Belief, Dogma
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2221, Manonmani Publishers

Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda
Teacher, Love Is, Self
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1858, Manonmani Publishers

Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another.

Swami Vivekananda
Way

Thoughts are living things - they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda
Living Things

Let the end and the means be joined into one.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Ends
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.35, Advaita Ashrama

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

Swami Vivekananda
Destiny, Identity, Way

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Absolutes, Universe
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.120, New World Library

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Slave, Hundred
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Fighting, Creating
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.42, Advaita Ashrama

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Swami Vivekananda
Anger, Men, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1803, Manonmani Publishers

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

Swami Vivekananda
Cat, Animal, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.467, Manonmani Publishers

Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.

Swami Vivekananda
Perseverance, Infinite, Given
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

Swami Vivekananda
Special, Peculiar, Way
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2590, Manonmani Publishers

Each soul is potentially divine.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Divine
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Gone, Degenerates
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Artist, Ideas
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

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

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

Swami Vivekananda
Desire, Trying, Atoms
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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