Swami Vivekananda Inspiration Quotations

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

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

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

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

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

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

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

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

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

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash. Some people think that is inspiration. There is no more inspiration than there is expiration; and never was anything got for nothing.

This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration.

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.