21 Effective Quotation of Swami Vivekananda

1. If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished mountains can be crumbled into atoms. 2. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it, live on idea. et the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and !ust leave every other idea alone. This is the "ay to success. #. $ome out into the universe of ight. %verything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it "ith love. If you every felt you "anted to do that, you have felt &od. '. (ll kno"ledge that the "orld has ever received comes from the mind) the infinite library of the universe is in our o"n mind. *. +tand up, be bold, be strong. Take the "hole responsibility on your o"n shoulders, and kno" that you are the creator of your o"n destiny. (ll the strength and succor you "ant is "ithin yourself. Therefore make your o"n future. ,. There is no help for you outside of yourself) you are the creator of the universe. ike the silk"orm you have built a cocoon around yourself-. .urst your o"n cocoon and come out a" the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you "ill see Truth. /. It is our o"n mental attitude "hich makes the "orld "hat it is for us. 0ur thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The "hole "orld is in our o"n minds. earn to see things in the proper light. 1irst, believe in this "orld, that there is meaning behind everything. %verything in the "orld is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Thro" the burden on yourselves2 3. 4old to the idea, 5I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am "atching my mind act,6 and each day the identification of yourself "ith thoughts and feelings "ill gro" less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually kno" it to be apart from yourself. 7. (ll love is e8pansion, all selfishness is contraction. ove is therefore the only la" of life. 4e "ho loves lives, he "ho is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love9s sake, because it is la" of life, !ust as you breathe to live.

1:. 0ur duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his o"n highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. 11. %ven the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it "ere after his or her heart. .ut the intelligent ones are those "ho can convert every "ork into one that suits their taste. 12. $ondemn 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 o"n "ay. 1#. %ach "ork has to pass through these stagesridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those "ho think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood. 1'. If you think that you are bound, you remain bound) you make your o"n bondage. If you kno" that you are free, you are free this moment. This is kno"ledge, kno"ledge of freedom. 1reedom is the goal of all nature. 1*. (s long as "e believe ourselves to be even the least different from &od, fear remains "ith us) but "hen "e kno" ourselves to be the 0ne, fear goes) of "hat can "e be afraid< 1,. =our (tman is the support of the universe"hose support do you stand in need of< >ait "ith patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready no", they "ill come in time. >hy should "e be in a hurry< The real "orking force of all great "ork is in its almost unperceived beginnings. 1/. earning and "isdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all po"er. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the (tman, possessed of kno"ledge, po"er, and activity, has its seat. 13. ?nderstanding human nature is the highest kno"ledge, and only by kno"ing it can "e kno" &od< It is also a fact that the kno"ledge of &od is the highest kno"ledge, and only by kno"ing &od can "e understand human nature 17. @urity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

2:. If you "ant to have life, you have to die every moment for it. ife and death are only different e8pressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints) they are the falling and the rising of the same "ave, and the t"o form one "hole. 21. %ach soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity "ithin by controlling nature, e8ternal and internal. Ao this either by "ork, or "orship or psychic control or philosophy by one or more or all of these and be free.