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"The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
"Thirst after body is the great bane of human life."
"The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while"."
"There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body."
"We are what our considered opinion abide through us; so put up with assiduousness about what you storage. Natter are sub-. Line live; they travel far."
"The sign of life is strength and growth."
"First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving."
"The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so."
"There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms."
"One link in a chain explains the infinite chain."
"Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free."
"The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal."
"Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has."
"We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom."
"The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal."
"You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good."
"Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom."
"According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress."
"Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end."
"What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart."