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Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now.
Systems and schools can indicate methods and ways, but no system or school whatever can do for a man the work that he must do himself. Inner growth, a change of being, depends entirely upon the work which a man must do on himself.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Emulate your forefathers, your ancestors… You see, their words remain in their writings open, that you may read and copy their wisdom.
Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.
Each has his own fancies, opposed to his true good.
The pure man… has the power of bringing it (higher truth) into a certain state of vibration, which can be conveyed to others, arousing in them a similar vibration. You see that in everyday actions. I am talking to you. What am I trying to do? I am, so to say, bringing my mind to a certain state of vibration, and the more I succeed in bringing it to that state, the more you will be affected by what I say. All of you know that the day I am more enthusiastic the more you enjoy the lecture.
I have earnestly endeavoured not to laugh at human actions, nor to lament them, but to understand them.
Little minds are too much hurt by little events. Great minds understand all of them, and remain untouched.
Truth is not something lying in time, in the future, but is something here, now, only above us, above our present consciousness.
Dare to be wise!
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
What matters is what we love, for that is what determines the true and final course of our lives.
So helpless does slavery make men that they grow fond of it.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
Do not await the fulfillment of the divine cause you serve, but know that none of your efforts are fruitless, for they all advance the cause.
You cannot think about yourself and be yourself at the same time.
The chief result gained by experience is clearness of view. This is what distinguishes the man of mature age… it is only then that he sees things plainly, and takes them for what they really are, while in earlier years he saw a phantom-world, put together with the whims and imaginations of his own mind… the real world was hidden from him, or the vision of it distorted. The first thing that experience does is to free us from the phantoms of the mind.
