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"The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe."
"All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death."
"Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need."
"Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God."
"What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment."
"It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else."
"The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration."
"Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children."
"Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less."
"The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature."
"If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else."
"Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs."
"Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society."
"To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will."
"According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self."
"Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free."
"The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it."
"My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt."
"Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character."
"True progress is slow but sure."