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Yogi · Indian · 1872–1950
Indian yogi (1872–1950)
“My God is love and sweetly suffers all.”
“Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul”
“All can be done if the god-touch is there”
“But though hast come and all will surely change.”
“Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart”
“The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance”
“The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.”
“I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished...”
“It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious whic...”
“As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot ...”
“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in th...”
“In Indian social-cultural-political discourse there is a general tendency to ignore deeper, intellectual thought, and the sensationalist mass media has actually contributed to a great dumbing down ...”
“Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.”
“... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image.”
“For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world”
“A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve. In this nether li...”
“What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”
“When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.”
“All true love and all sacrice arein their essence Natures contradiction of the primary egoism andits separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary rstfragmentation towards a recovere...”
“The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.”
