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"If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God."
"Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all."
"When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without."
"With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled."
"We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death."
"To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!"
"Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection."
"Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge."
"Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power."
"The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free."
"What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul."
"Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it."
"Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you."
"World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents."
"God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?"
"Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition."
"Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make."
"God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice.""
"Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit"
"Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people."