Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
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When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
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The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
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Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.
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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
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