"Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure."
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"The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial."
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"Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one"
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"The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini."
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"...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that."
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"As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful."
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"There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game."
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"Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not."
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"If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness.""
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"The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
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"The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible."
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"Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show."
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"Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet."
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"Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara."
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"Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments."
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"Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness."
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"Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear'. Tell this to everybody-'Have no fear'."
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"Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit."
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"You yourselves are the Being you are seeking."
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"He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God."
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