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| “The blind, the deaf and the lame, the armless, the puny, ignorant
and the debased, the lowliest and the forlorn, all can pray to God - for
prayer belongs to the heart and its feeling and not to the body. Prayer
does not demand high intelligence or eloquence. God wants your heart when
you pray. He knows what you wish to say! Even if you make mistakes in your
prayers to Him, even if there are mistakes in the mantras you recite,
if you are sincere, if the prayer comes from your heart, He listens to
it because He understands the language of your heart.”
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| “Love is the heart of religion, the theme of all classical works
of art and literature, the song of all devotees. Scientists know only what
love does - not what love is. Love can indeed empty our asylums, perhaps
all our prisons, may be all our hospitals. People suffer in life due to
lack of love. Love is to human hearts what the sun is to flowers.”
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| “People seldom think of their own actions as bad - whatever they
do seems to them at least well intentioned. But if they create disharmony
for others and thus on deeper levels of their being for themselves,
those waves of disharmony will inevitably return to them in the form of
disharmony. Every action, every thought, reaps its own corresponding rewards.
Human suffering is not a sign of God's anger with mankind. It is a sign,
rather, of men's ignorance of the Law. The Law is forever infallible
in its workings.”
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| “When Love is cultivated in our heart, it will naturally express
itself as service and charity. These will become part and parcel of our
nature. The urge to serve and give will be spontaneous. We have to
cultivate this spirit of service. We have to do charity to expand our heart.
We must grow in love, when the little “I” the selfish ego dies, you will
be God Himself, full of love and compassion for all beings. That
is the goal of this human birth”
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| Speech needs company, silence needs solitude.
Speech wants to conquer others, silence helps conquer oneself. Speech makes friends or foes, silence befriends all. Speech demands respect, silence commands it. Speech is self-expression, silence is self-experience. Speech can be impressive, silence is ecstatic Speech has regrets, silence none. Speech has limitations silence is boundless. Speech needs effort, silence a lot more. |
| Let us endeavour to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ by throwing
out all that is without love in order to leave a space in which the Holy
Spirit may work cleansing us of all that is evil (a veil of ignorance).
Let us cleanse our doorstep of selfishness, judgement, self esteem and
arrogance and give out love and kindness and understanding to whoever comes
into our aura-thereby changing our basic essence, our basic energy flow-until
we become the essence of what He come to teach us.
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| Lord, deliver us from all care for contingencies, deliver us from
the ordinary outlook on things. Grant that we may hence forth see only
with Thy eyes and act only by Thy will. Transform us into living torches
of Thy divine love.
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| Helping others physically, by removing their physical needs, is
indeed great; but the help is greater according as the need is greater
and according as the help is far-reaching. If a man's wants can be removed
for an hour, it is helping him indeed; if his wants can be removed for
a year, it will be more help to him; but if his wants can be removed for
ever it is surely the greatest help that can be given to him. Spiritual
knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever; any
other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time. It is only with the knowledge
of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated for ever; so helping
man spiritually is the highest help that can be given to him.
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| “What for am I here, in this wilderness which men call the world?
I asked. And the answer came - You are here that you may love God, and
love Him intensely! And when you love Him, every stone will become a diamond,
and every thorn will become a rose, and this wilderness will become a garden
of flowers, fragrant and fair! … Yes love God! But to love God, I must
know God! And to know God, I must think of Him, think of Him again and
again, think of Him so that I think of nothing else! So let my daily life
be full of little turnings towards Him, of little offerings unto Him, and
of intimate and loving conversations with Him who is the Lover, the Friend
and the Spouse of our souls!”
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| For long centuries man has exploited brother birds and animals for
entertainment and sport and food and clothing. Alas! man has forgotten
that the one life which flows through him, - and to which he clings as
to his most precious possession, - also, flows through the animals. Like
man, the animal experiences pain and pleasure. Like man, the animal depends
on food and air and water for his sustenance. Like man, the animal loves
his young and protects them, in times of danger, with a courage and devotion
no human can surpass.
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| “Detachment, Faith, and Love - these are pillars on which Peace
rests. Of these Faith is crucial. For without it, Sadhana (spiritual practice)
is an empty rite. Detachment alone can make sadhana effective and
Love leads quickly to God. Faith feeds the agony of separation from God;
detachment canalises it along the path of God; Love lights the way. God
will grant you what you need and deserve; there is no need to ask, no reason
to grumble. Be content, be grateful whatever happens, whenever it happens.
Nothing can happen against His Will.”
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| "Have no thorn of hate in your mind, develop love towards all. Desire
is a storm, greed is a whirlpool, pride is a precipice, attachment is an
avalanche, egoism is a volcano. Keep these things away so that when you
recite the name of God or do meditation, they do not disturb the equanimity.
Let love be enthroned in your heart. Then there will be sunshine and cool
breezes and gurgling waters of contentment feeding the roots of faith."
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