"The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy."
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"This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness."
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"The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing."
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"Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person."
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"Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out"
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"Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept."
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"Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference."
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"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
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"Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building."
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"Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper."
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"There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin.""
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"The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India."
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"The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much."
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"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."
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"Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'"
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"Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work"
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"The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads."
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"Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!"
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"The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom."
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"May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea."
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