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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.

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Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.

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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Vivekananda
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If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Vivekananda
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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

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Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you but do not think of that now.

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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

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

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All the power is within you, you can do anything and everything.

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The greatest teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

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