15 Laws Of Life Given by Shri Swami Vivekananda
1. Love Is The Law Of Life.
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is
therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish
is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life,
just as you breathe to live.
2.It Is Your Outlook That Matters.
It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for
us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly.
The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper
light.
3.Life Is Beautiful.
First, believe in this world – that there is meaning behind
everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If
you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the
right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!
4.It Is The Way You Feel.
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you
will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the
vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach
God.
5.Set Yourself Free.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human
body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see
God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds
vanishes, and I am free.
6. Don't Play The Blame Game.
Condemn 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
own way.
7. Help Others.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if
not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the
better.
8. Uphold Your Ideals.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his
own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as
near as possible to the Truth.
9.Listen To Your Soul.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can
make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
10.Be Yourself.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in
yourselves!
11.Nothing Is Impossible.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the
greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin –
to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
12.You Have The Power.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put
our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
13.Learn Every Day.
The goal of mankind is knowledge… now this knowledge is inherent in
man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a
man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he
'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he
discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of
infinite knowledge.
14. Be Truthful.
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed
for anything.
15. Think Differently.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because
oneness is the secret of everything.