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"What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun."
"Music alone can take you to the Highest!"
"Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience."
"Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe."
"Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."
"The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength."
"Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world."
"Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself."
"Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind."
"There is no virtue higher than non-injury."
"The greatest sin is to think yourself weak"
"Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!"
"If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite."
"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves."
"The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that."
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."
"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
"Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle."
"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
"A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century."