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"The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils."
"The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still."
"Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so."
"Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord."
"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. 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?....... We make our own destiny."
"The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
"May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love."
"All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit."
"All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre."
"Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins."
"Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!"
"Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes."
"Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it."
"There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened."
"It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same."
"Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else.""
"There is no end to the power a man can obtain."
"Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation."
"My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice."
"The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death."