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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Divinity, Ifs
Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.171, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Brain, Enlightening
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3685, Manonmani Publishers

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Men, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.69, Lulu Press, Inc

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Thinking, Light
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.

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

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Intelligent, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.34, Advaita Ashrama

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Sacrifice, Light
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.268, Advaita Ashrama

The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Men, Enemy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1001, Manonmani Publishers

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

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

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Inspiration, Heart
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.8, editionNEXT.com

You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.

Swami Vivekananda
Strong, Heart, Men

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

Swami Vivekananda
Jesus, Heart, Son
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Want, Worship
Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

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

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Swami Vivekananda
Book, Heart, Needs
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2376, Manonmani Publishers

The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

Swami Vivekananda
Kings, Heart, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Heart, Character

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Motivational, Religious, Heart
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Mind, And Love
Swami Vivekananda (1999). “Awakened India”

Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.

Swami Vivekananda
Children, Heart, Thinking
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Oneness, Attachment

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Joy, Suffering
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.205, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Love Is, Men
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

Swami Vivekananda
Heart, Down And, And Love
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.107, Advaita Ashrama

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