It is not that blasphemy is offensive to God. He is used to it, for He has met it under many conditions. But it is insulting to the atmosphere and destructive of him who uses it.
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The man of purpose says No to all lesser calls, all minor opportunities. In other words, he has nothing to do with what might drag him down to the low grovelling plane of separation and limitation.
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“I shall study medicine.”
Q: “But is not that profession already over-crowded?
A: “Possibly it is, but I purpose to study medicine all the same.”
“Those who are already in the profession must take their chances.”
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
There is no, hope for you unless this bit of sod under your feet is the sweetest for you in the world – in any world.”
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“To be successful a man need take no heed for his own particular future. He will find his place in the future of his work.”
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Even rats desert a sinking ship.
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Vice is our name for self-inflicted injury.
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All external pieces of advice are like stimulants or narcotics. They may help to borrow from our future store of energy, but they borrow at compound interest and never repay the loan. At best they (or their seeming pleasure) are the white lies of physiology.
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A man came to his office smacking his lips and said to his clerk, “The world looks very different to the man who has had a good glass of brandy and soda in the morning.”
“Yes,” said the clerk, “and the man looks different to the world.”
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Men are not born wicked, men are born weak.
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The sinner is the man who cannot say no.
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Your paramount duty in life is toward your after-self. So live that your after-self – the man you ought to be – may in his time be possible and actual.
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Let God do His work, we will see to ours.
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All that exists is but a mighty curtain of appearances, tremulous now and again with breaths from the unseen that it conceals. At any point a pinprick may pierce the great illusion, and the seeker become aware of the Infinite Reality beyond.
“The cow is only able to yield her full possibility of milk to a milker whom she regards as her child.”
Professor Minnesto College of Agriculture
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Milk is the only food that is the product of Love.
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Love is no love which is only skin-deep, i.e. based on beauty of form. It is an insult to the underlying God.
The women know that their real motive in dressing well is to compete with each other, not to shine in the eyes of the sterner sex.
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It is always dangerous to keep the body saturated with water. A little fall in temperature brings about a precipitation sometimes severe cold.
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Cold water in warm days is a very deceitful allurement. The more you drink, the more, thirsty you feel.
All colds can be cured by abstinence from water.
On the contrary cold weather requires more solid food and when the weather suddenly clears up or warms up, the precipitation of food causes indigestion.”
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When a sudden change in the temperature of the inner humanity takes place, sneering is the result. Hence the name “cold” is quite appropriate.
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When the inside is warmer (and feeling thirst) than the outside, the disturbed balance results in “cold”. The secret of health lies in keeping the inside in a dry hygrometric state.
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Bhishma is filled with the supernatural assurance that his side must lose, yet he strikes not a single blow either more or less for this consideration.
“Don’t Touchism.” Kitchen religion.
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Dharma (Religion) – “the manners of man.”
The whole weight of the conception is shifted away from creed, much more from caste or race to that which is universal and permanent in each and every human-being.
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The perfect person can move beneath the lashing waves and nothing in the waters hinders him. He walks on flames and they cannot scorch him. He goes upon the air and ether far above all mundane things. In all these motions he has no idea of being afraid.
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