More Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
