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The endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
To repel one’s cross is to make it heavier.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
I do believe you think what now you speak;
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Give me that man
That is not passion’s slave,
and I will wear him
In my heart’s core,
ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.
I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow’s shadow.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
I feel that all I know and all I teach, will do nothing for my own soul, if I spend my time, as most people do, in business or company, even the best company. My soul starves to death in the best company; and God is often lost in prayers and ordinances. “Enter into thy chamber,” said He, “and shut thy door about thee!” Some words in Scripture are very emphatical. “Shut thy door” means much: it means — shut out, not only nonsense, but business — not only the company abroad, but the company at home: It means — let thy poor soul have a little rest and refreshment; and God have opportunity to speak to thee in a small still voice, or He will speak in thunder.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
O scion of Bharat, I am also the knower of all the individual fields of activity. The understanding of the body as the field of activities, and the soul and God as the knowers of the field, this I hold to be true knowledge.