"The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other."
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"The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy."
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"A form comes out of a combination of force and matter."
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"The real man is the one Unit Existence."
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"To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it."
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"This rascal ego must be obliterated."
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"Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested."
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"As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion."
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"Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not."
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"There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything."
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"This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us."
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"The road to salvation is through truth."
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"First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil."
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"Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity."
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"I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary."
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"Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change."
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"Body is the name of a series of changes."
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"We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet."
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"Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it."
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"The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries."
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