"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
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"The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time."
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"Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever."
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"I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him."
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"Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value."
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"If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."
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"Those who own much have much to fear."
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"To find God, you must welcome everything."
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"Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation."
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"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict."
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"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open."
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"Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite."
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"The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel."
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"We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second."
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"Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it."
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"Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits."
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"The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail."
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"Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh."
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"The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist."
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"The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning."
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