"This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love."
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"Perfection is always infinite."
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"Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it."
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"All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course."
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"Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure."
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"Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest."
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"Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines."
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"Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred."
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"The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful."
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"My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life."
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"Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds."
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"I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting"
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"The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc."
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"I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place."
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"Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud."
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"The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . ."
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"No effect of work can be eternal."
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"Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation."
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"Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form."
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"Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go."
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