Swami Vivekananda Practice Quotations

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.

The real work is in the practice.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

We have to practice to become perfect.

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

We must patiently practice every day.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

The Yogi must always practice.

Practice makes us what we shall be.

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Move onward and carry into practice.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .