Source: Raja Yoga
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Famous Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Source: Meditation and Its Methods
“External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.”
Source: Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?”
Source: The Powers of The Mind
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“Move onward and carry into practice.”
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.”
Source: Complete Works
“One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.”
Source: Complete Works
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Practice makes us what we shall be.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Complete Works
“The real work is in the practice.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The Yogi must always practice.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Complete Works
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
Source: Complete Works
“Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We have to practice to become perfect.”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“We must patiently practice every day.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.”
Source: Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion
“How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.”
Source: Complete Works
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Complete Works
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it”
“You must all pay attention to your health first.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda
“Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Personality Development
“Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.”
Source: Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda
Source: Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion
Source: Lectures Vol. 4
“Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Source: Complete Works