1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

The real work is in the practice.

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything.

The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.