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- Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you…
- Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."…
- Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach…
- You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their…
- From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry…
- Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little…
- There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as…
- We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere…
- If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to…
- One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher…
- Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of…
- That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
- Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they…
- Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
- It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O…
- You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can…
- 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.
- I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This…
- Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .
- Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of…
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