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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these, hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
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Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.
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Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
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There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Escape brings not the victory and the crown.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought realization and aspiration.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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One must have first of all a solid foundation.
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The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
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Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
Clifford Geertz
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. Schumacher
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
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Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
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What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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