"The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears."
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"None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress."
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"In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite."
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"He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books."
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"Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library."
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"I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India."
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"The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help."
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"The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future."
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"Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness."
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"Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art."
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"The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything."
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"Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death."
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"To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature."
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"Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma."
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"Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies."
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"All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day."
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"It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
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"Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit."
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"What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes."
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"We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth."
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