"Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas."
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"Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature."
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"Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom"
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"Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance."
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"Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . ."
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"Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation."
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"There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future."
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"The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form"
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"The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects."
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"Change is inherent in every form."
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"Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space."
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"Man is not mind, he is soul."
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"When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will"
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"We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego."
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"I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff"
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"You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith."
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"The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta."
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"Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals."
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"May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!"
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"Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation."
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