Some quotes from Speaking Tree by Swami Vivekananda
- The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.
- Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
- Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary for anyone to be religious.
- Those who work at a thing with heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.
- Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
- Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
- As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.
- “Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
