Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

A changeable God would be no God.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

God is pure, and the same to all.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything.

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

You must all pay attention to your health first.