Effective Quotation of
Swami Vivekananda
1. If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be
accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
2. 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.
3. Come out
into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out
your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that,
you have felt God.
4. All
knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite
library of the universe is in our own mind.
5. Stand
up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders,
and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and
succor you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future. 6. There is
no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like
the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon
and come out aw the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will
see Truth.
7. It is our
own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make
things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own
minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world,
that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is
holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand
it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!
8. 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.
9. 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 law of life, just as you breathe
to live.
10.
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.
11.
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.
12.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If
you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers and let them go their own way.
13.
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.
14. If you
think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you
know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge
of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.
15.
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?
16. Your Atman
is the support of the universe—whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with
patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in
time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is
in its almost unperceived beginnings.
17.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter
merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the
brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and
activity, has its seat.
18.
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by
knowing it can we know God? It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the
highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature
19.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to
success and, above all, love.
20.
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it.
Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from
different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave,
and the two form one whole.
21. Each soul
is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by
controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship
or psychic control or philosophy – by one or more or all of these and be free.
~BY,
