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“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself.”

Swami Vivekananda

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Call to the Nation

“Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him — that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.”

Swami Vivekananda

Source: Karma Yoga: the Yoga of Action

“Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!”

Swami Vivekananda

“Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.””

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda

“You cannot die nor can I.”

Swami Vivekananda

Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop or stay it.”

Swami Vivekananda

Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâ

“We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom

“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.”

Swami Vivekananda

Pearls of Wisdom