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"Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment."
"The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us."
"Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians."
"Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so."
"We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries."
"Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will."
"This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants."
"If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens."
"It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost."
"I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness."
"The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance."
"Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe."
"Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one."
"Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you."
"Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there."
"We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts."
"Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!"
"You think the shadow is the substance."
"I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life."
"They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone."
