Men ought not to care if a dog barks, as it is a proof he will not bite.
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The old coquette, this world of ours, conceals her age, but her biography is under our feet.
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God is more pleased when I smoke my pipe than from the prayers of a hundred Rabbis.
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When human tongue ceases, to speak, then the stones begin to talk.
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Civilization is nothing more nor less than a ceaseless effort or struggle to build up pyramids to bury alive the soul.
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Never sympathise with the distressed. Your sympathy aggravates your case and accelerates their fall. Let them sympathise with your health and vigour. This improves both parties.
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The world lives in deception. The one half deceives the other, while those of the other half deceive themselves.
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Popularity and Unpopularity
1. Small rivers and springs may be utilized in generating power of all kinds, whereas Niagara Falls and Himalayan cascades near Chamba etc. may remain unnoticed. Does that take away from their inner dignity and native majesty? Not at all.
So, sometimes very small souls become famous like Christ and Mahomet etc. and grand souls like Dattatreya and Krishna may long remain ignored.
1. Physicians denounced laughing gas and chloroform, vaccination, cinchona.
2. Catch-penny practice of the Charlatan.
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Nobody has the power to say “No” to you except yourself.
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Paradox of death:
The question is usually put “If death or any other condition is brought on by ourselves, why do we groan and wail at the time of departure?”.
Answer: Newly married girls leave their parents etc. of their own accord, but why do they weep and cry while bidding Good-bye to their mother and sisters? We change our old friends for new ones of ourselves and then we miss the dear old relations.
Look at the idea of promising an eternity of happiness to one who, out of cowardice, most probably repents at his last gasp!
If railway cars and electric telegraphs are utilized to save our time and energy, it were foolish on our part not to utilize the electrostatic and meteorological conditions of the Cosmos – in the form of inspiring atmosphere and genial climate – to aid us in making rapid spiritual advancement. Kissing breeze and murmuring streams etc. are not to be discarded as outside helps; everything and anything is in us if we can control it and turn it to advantage.
Keep your mind full of agreeable memories and pleasant associations of ideas; all the time saturated with happy thoughts and godly notions; you will have no occasion to suffer or repine.
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ORIGINAL THOUGHT: Keep the subconscious mind (Karana Sarir) imbued with holy, pure and sublime feelings – and original thought is sure to flow out of you.
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Ho, all ye that suffer, know ye that ye suffer from yourselves. Do away with the fallacy that your pain is caused by another.
FOREST LIFE
1. Why not come to help others as a prisoner of city life? No prisoners can be helped by you except when you visit gaols in the capacity of a free gentleman not living in the prison-house.
2. No rivers can feed the plains, if their original home be not away up in the mountain forests.
3. Laboratories of soul, observatories of spirit and Universities of Truth cannot be formed in the dingy, putrid air of cities.
4. The highly advanced citizens am be benefited by even the writings of forest sages. And the vulgar mob will rather be repulsed when they find the sage in their midst.
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Europeans and Americans exult to clothe their bright skin in dark or brownish clothes. The black apparel does not signify a dark body. So, the Hindus prefer dark skin to clothe a bright glorious Soul.
Civilized people like red Indians paint (instead of tattooing) their faces and put on feathers in their heads. The crowded streets present a spectacle of churchyard with marble tombs and fashionable coffins burying the origin of life, the self-supreme.
Nobody in his heart of hearts likes to live this artificial life, but they do it for vanity – to please nobody in the name of pleasing others or the imaginary bugbear called “Society.”
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I have no use for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and the moon and I am willing that they should look in. And if the sun is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it better economy to retreat behind a curtain already provided by Nature than to add a single item to the details of house-keeping.
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As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full – crowded, chokeful, moreover, I have tried it fairly and strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
I have never yet met a man who was awake – How could I have looked him in the face?
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The people’s life is frittered away by detail.
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People think if railroads are not built, how will they go to heaven in season?
Men are determined to be starved before they are hungry.
Nothing New in Newspapers.
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Children who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men who think that they are wiser by Experience, that is by failure.
Be it life or death, I crave only for reality.
Be it sin or sorrow, I’ll be true to the inner genius.
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I would not sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work.
I grow in these seasons like corn in the night (without memorable achievements unobserved).
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My days are no days of the week bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor are they fretted by the ticking of a clock.
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You are immortal, know yourself and your Life is always insured without the aid of any Life-insurance Company.