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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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Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

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When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

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The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

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