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"The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage."
"The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end."
"You gain nothing by becoming cowards."
"God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls."
"Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory."
"Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself."
"Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!"
"Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery."
"[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness."
"Practice makes us what we shall be."
"These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides."
"Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!"
"Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control."
"I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life."
"Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another.""
"Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody."
"Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it."
"The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles."
"We shall progress inch by inch."
"Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves."