"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."
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"When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together."
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"We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank."
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"One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud."
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"To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness."
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"I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir."
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"The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved."
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"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
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"Constant Kindness can accomplish much."
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"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves."
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"When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma."
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"A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials."
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"Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga."
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"From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance"
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"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
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"Insist on yourself. Never imitate."
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"We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance."
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"Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence."
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"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
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"Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue."
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