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Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.
It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.
From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.
Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
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.
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.
A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.
Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point
The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.