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"Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew."
"They alone live, who live for others."
"All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling."
"I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end."
"If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain."
"Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want."
"Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing."
"You are the creator of your own destiny"
"The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness."
"This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death."
"The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves."
"My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large"
"God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."
"The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought."
"I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there."
"In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change."
"Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit."
"Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all."
"We are all born cowards."
"If superstition enters, the brain is gone."