"Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous"."
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"Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized."
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"All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between bodies. One fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is that all men are different, there being unity in variety. Even for a drunkard, there are some Mantras-even for a man going to a prostitute!"
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"The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body."
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"Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us."
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"Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative."
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"Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself."
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"With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject]."
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"Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense."
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"The whole point is to discipline the mind."
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"The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles."
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"What we want is progress, development, realisation."
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"Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it."
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"Brave, bold people, these are what we want."
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"Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening."
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"Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom."
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"We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that."
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"The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others."
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"All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations."
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"The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions"
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