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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.

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Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.

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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

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Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

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If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

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If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.

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