"Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up."
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"Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory."
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"Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much."
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"All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue."
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"However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite."
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"It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing."
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"We are what our thoughts have made us"
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"Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man."
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"Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail."
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"Strength is life, Weakness is death."
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"All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up."
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"The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone."
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"Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures."
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"Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate."
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"To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion."
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"This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer."
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"We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God."
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"The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
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"Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?"
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"As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate."
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