Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Superhuman power is not strong enough.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

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

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

The idol is the expression of religion.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.