Let the Sun and the Moon like humming bees play upon the lotus of your heart.
Dissolve the Sun in the sea of your mind.
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In midnight look at the barn of stars, O Raj hans! pearls thy favourite dish, thy golden beak picking up each and every star, afloat on the bosom of the Mansarovar of Infinity.
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The moment we come to love a thing, it no longer carries harm for us.
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The very fact of one’s holding the thought of perfect health sets into operation vital forces which will in time be more or less productive of the effect – perfect health.
With a mind at peace, and with a heart going out in love to all, go into the quiet of your own interior Self.
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Those who desire one thing and expect another have a house divided against itself. They suffer.
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Beauty and pleasure is an accidental or momentary coincidence of the universal and the particular, and an earnest of their complete reconciliation.
The mental attitude Ave take toward anything determines its effects upon us.
If we fear it, or if we antagonize it, the chances are that it will have detrimental or even disastrous effects upon us.
If we come into harmony with it by quietly recognizing and inwardly asserting our superiority over it, it will carry with it no injury for us.
Of itself it has no power, it has only the power you invest it with.
In one kingdom at least be a ruler, – the kingdom of your mind, and be it yours to dictate what shall and what shall not enter there.
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The bodies of thousands today would be much better eared for if their owners gave them less care and thought. Those who think the least of their bodies enjoy the best health.
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As a man thinketh, so he is; Rise, then, and think with God.
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In the sea of troubles and opposition the man of divine knowledge can never sink, as the Sun can never be drowned in darkness.
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The most dangerous of the three great enemies of reason and knowledge is not malice, but ignorance, or, perhaps, indolence.
How can the disease of personality be cured so long as relations, plans and “doing good” and “accomplishing something” is there?
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Let us have at least the dignity of trees and rivers.
Healthy life is impossible without a constant throwing off of what has been exhausted, and scientific progress is impossible without our leaving behind those that came before us, even though they were giants in their days.
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When God speaks to God, then God responds, and shows forth as God. But when devil speaks to devil, then devil responds, and the devil is always to pay.
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The whole of his force is wasted in the run and nothing is left for the leap.
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We are near awaking when we dream that we dream.
It is far more easy to ask for what is impossible than to do what is possible.
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I hold it as a changeless law,
From which no soul can sway or swerve,
We have that in us which will draw
Whate’er we need or most deserve.
Health and strength will be your unquestioned portion provided you pay more attention to your internal and consequently less to the external states with their supposed but unreal necessities.
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Take no thought about the body as to what ye shall eat, what ye shall drink, and what ye shall put on. Look at the lilies in the field…. This is to Vive the life that tells.
One need remain in no hell longer than he himself chooses to. One can rise to any heaven he himself chooses; and when he chooses so to rise, all the higher powers of the universe combine to help him heavenward.
Philosophy advances not so much by the answers given to difficult problems, as by the starting of new problems, and by asking questions which no one else would think of asking.