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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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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.

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Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

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The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

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Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

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Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

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A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

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Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

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I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

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Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

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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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Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

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To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

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What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

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Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.

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The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

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