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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

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Here we can only direct and create conditions, but not help.

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Rest comes not from the quantity but from the quality of sleep.

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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

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You must understand that ordinary efforts do not count; only superefforts count.

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

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Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feelings is slavery
Hope of body is disease.

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Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.

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The worse the conditions of life the more productive the work, always provided you remember the work.

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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation, says "I".

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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

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Here there are neither Russians nor English, Jews nor Christians, but only those who pursue one aim — to be able to be.

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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

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KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ARE QUITE DIFFERENT. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it.

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

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In right knowledge the study of man must proceed on parallel lines with the study of the world, and the study of the world must run parallel with the study of man.

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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

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Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

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In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

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