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To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

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The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

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The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

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And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

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The law of Karma is the law of causation.

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Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

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We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

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Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.

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Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

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According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.

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A point of rest alone explains motion.

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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

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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.

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This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

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The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

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Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

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I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

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