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"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
"What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?"
"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
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"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"
"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."
"We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them."
"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength."
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