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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."
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Personal Development
"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
Cause
"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
Art
"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment."
Change
"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."
Influence
"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."
Life
"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
Life
"And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them."
Body
"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
Religion
"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language."
Language
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
Change
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