"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."
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"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
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"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
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"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."
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"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."
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"However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'"
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
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"But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are."
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"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
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"At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?"
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"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."
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"Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get."
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"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."
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"Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self."
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"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
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"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
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"All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all."
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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