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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.…
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone…
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as…
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years…
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not…
Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest.…
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears,…
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came…

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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood. — Swami Vivekananda
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