This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.


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The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, ...
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Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent,...
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Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
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The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes a...
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Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwe...
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Man's cry is to reach his fullest expression.
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Never be afraid of the moments - thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.
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Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language ...
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional ...
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If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, ...
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The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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God finds himself by creating.
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Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it d...
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically
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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
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Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
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Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for y...
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Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Wh...
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside th...
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st...
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one am...
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In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that imm...
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We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak."
...
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These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
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Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love...
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The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by...
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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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We live in this world when we love it.
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The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in it...
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Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation ...
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We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for real...
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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither giv...
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.
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