"Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant."
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"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being."
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"Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice."
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"They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive."
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"Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind."
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"Every time you meditate you will keep your growth."
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"All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls."
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"The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words."
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"The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice."
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"If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal."
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"Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect."
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"Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again."
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"Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion."
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"Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it."
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"He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong."
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"The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down."
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"No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written."
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"There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle."
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"Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege."
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"There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship."
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