"Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty"
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"O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream."
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"I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it."
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"For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support."
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"To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps."
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"We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony."
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"The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal."
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"Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream."
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"Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization."
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"He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it."
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"The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music."
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"The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . ."
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"The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves."
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"Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises."
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"False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes."
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"The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song."
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"To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision."
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"Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure."
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"Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart."
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"Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms."
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