Swami Vivekananda

Quotes from Swami Vivekananda.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
- Swami Vivekananda

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

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
- Swami Vivekananda

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.
- Swami Vivekananda

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
- Swami Vivekananda

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
- Swami Vivekananda

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
- Swami Vivekananda

The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.
- Swami Vivekananda

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