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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…
- Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
- 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…
- Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
- No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one…
- 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…
- Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind…
- Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
- Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.…
- Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some…
- Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give…
- All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this…
- Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are…
- Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even…
- We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief…
- A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make…
- Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on,…
- Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.
- Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as…
- I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a…
- Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
- Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is…
- In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.
- To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.
- Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
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