"The Yogi must always practice."
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"One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments."
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"External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity."
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"This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness."
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"This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body."
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"There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality."
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"There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail."
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"It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you."
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"Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery."
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"You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole world. For the whole world is one; you are rated a very insignificant part of it, and therefore it is right for you that you should serve your millions of brothers rather than aggrandise this little self"
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"Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?"
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"Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck."
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"The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion."
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"Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition."
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"Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature."
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"Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember."
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"The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?"
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"The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain."
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"An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable."
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"The power of purity-it is a definite power."
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