Swami Vivekananda

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”

“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.”

“The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

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

“In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.”

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

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!”

“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”

“MY nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love’s sake. I can not trade in love.”

“To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion”

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”

“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”

“If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.”