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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

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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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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

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If money help 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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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 Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

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Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

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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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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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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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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

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God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

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External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

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In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

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