"Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment."
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"Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!"
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"The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence"
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"This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal."
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"My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person."
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"The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world."
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"Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself."
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"I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve."
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"Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love.""
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"Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real."
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"An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them."
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"I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah."
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"Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark."
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"We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave."
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"Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow."
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"What power is higher than the power of purity?"
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"When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere."
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"No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want."
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"Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe."
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"Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!"
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