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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Color, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.15, editionNEXT.com

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Swami Vivekananda
Meditation, Done, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

Swami Vivekananda
Meditation, Pieces, Friction
Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

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)

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Meditation, Growth
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Knowing, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

Swami Vivekananda
Meditation, Helping, Holy
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.36, editionNEXT.com

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Meditation, Unification
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

Swami Vivekananda
Meditation, Helping, Depends
Source: tamilandvedas.com

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual, Meditation, Helping
Source: tamilandvedas.com

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Swami Vivekananda
Prayer, Thinking, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4515, Manonmani Publishers

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

Swami Vivekananda
Imagination, Meditation, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1638, Manonmani Publishers

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

Swami Vivekananda
Blood, Meditation, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Meditation, Mind

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