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"Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists."
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"Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy."
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"Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering."
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"Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs."
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"Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you."
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"Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role."
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"The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized."
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"Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward."
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"Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm."
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"Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you."
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"By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God."
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"We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a physical form to his disciples after his death. Lahiri Mahasaya returned in the flesh the next day after he had entered mahasamadhi. They proved that they were not destroyed."
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"As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind."
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"God is simple, everything else is complex"
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"Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him."
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"Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)"
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"Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations."
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"Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation."
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"Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man."
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