Swami Vivekananda Quotes and Sayings

Swami Vivekananda Quotes and Sayings

1. All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
   
   
2. Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
   
   
3. Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
   
   
4. First get rid of the delusion “I am the body,” then only will we want real knowledge.
   
   
5. Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
   
   
6. If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
   
   
7. 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.