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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

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Silence is also conversation.

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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

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The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

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True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

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Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

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