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This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.
When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.
Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.
In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.
All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.
Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!
The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.
We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself
May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.
Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.
This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.
I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.
No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.
It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good
Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.
The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.
Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.
Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.
First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.
The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.
To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.
The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.
On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.
Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.
When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.