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- The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without…
- Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.
- Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
- Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is…
- At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the wind blows, the…
- What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is…
- I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to…
- Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.
- Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.
- Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every…
- If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it…
- When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
- Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in…
- All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various…
- Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place…
- True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon…
- Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come…
- Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.
- If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards,…
- We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right…
- If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us.…
- Every change is being forced upon us.
- The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating…
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