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

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

Swami Vivekananda
Travel, Inspiration, Reflection
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Faith, Inspiration, Evil
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Thinking, Forget Everything
"Meditation and Its Methods".

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Inspiration, Successful

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational, Inspiration, Heart
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.8, editionNEXT.com

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice
"The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Oneness, Differences
Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.136, New World Library

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.34, Manonmani Publishers

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Exercise, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.15, Advaita Ashrama

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Thinking, Practice
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Meditation
Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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

Swami Vivekananda
Attitude, Inspiration, Attachment
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers

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

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Ideas

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Practice, Silence
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Heart, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.376, Manonmani Publishers

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Girl, Mother, Inspiration
"The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

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

Swami Vivekananda
Dream, Inspiration, Ambition
Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration, Thinking, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.66, editionNEXT.com

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