"This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger."
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"God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love."
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"Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result."
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"If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!"
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"Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy."
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"Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work."
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"Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope."
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"This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world."
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"All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you."
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"Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness."
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"How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?"
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"Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have."
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"Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves."
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"To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity."
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"Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap."
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"The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes."
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"Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached."
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"The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present."
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"Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us."
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"Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
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