"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead."
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"Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?"
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"Be gentle with the earth."
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"Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you."
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"The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny."
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"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success."
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"Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe."
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"I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy."
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"Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves."
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"Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain."
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"Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!"
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"The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man."
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"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
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"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it."
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"It's karma, baby. And it goes around."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon."
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"The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free."
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"Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself."
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"Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be."
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"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself."
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