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Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
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The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
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Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
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The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
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The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
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The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.
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The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
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When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
October 1, 1847
Died:
September 20, 1933
(aged 85)
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