"To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it."
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"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
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"Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably."
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"While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence."
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"One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent."
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"The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force."
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"The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience."
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"Hidden nature is secret God."
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"Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius."
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"The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self."
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"The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself."
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"The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe."
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"When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion."
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"When Reason died, then Wisdom was born."
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"Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world."
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"Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators."
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"Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world."
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"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."
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"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
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"Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal."
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