9 Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Consciousness

Swami Vivekananda quotes on consciousness

2. The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.

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

33. The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat or cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

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

57. As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

60. As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

137. The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

151. The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

174. We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.