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- The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With…
- The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation…
- The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus.
- Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings,…
- 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…
- The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone…
- 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…
- We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity…
- 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…
- The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the…
- To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization…
- 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.…
- This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.
- There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should…
- It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.
- Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind.…
- Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.
- Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon…
- This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our…
- This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will…
- The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.
- Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.
- Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
- The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I…
- Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is…
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