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“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth centur...”
“The central ideas of Christianity an angry God and vicarious atonement are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage o...”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.”
“The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.”
“In every aspect of your life, try to balance the imbalances to make your life more happier and try to imbalance the balanced ones to make your life full of adventures !”
“I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.”
“Every time you feel great anger, stop and write down who or what caused your feelings and why you reacted so angrily. The goal is to get to the root of the anger. Only when you understand the sourc...”
“Anger is good... Anger, you see, is to people what fuel is to an automobile. Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to any challenge, and life would be no more than mere existence. Anger is ...”
“In recent decades we have emphasized the value of teaching people 'tolerance.' Tolerance is not only inadequate, it is a negative concept which only alienates society further. Learning to tolerate ...”
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pl...”
“If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought wi...”
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”
“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman or the Fiji Islands. That a country which has been recognised in all ag...”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
“I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.”
