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"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
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"The less you need, the more you live."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."

"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."

"Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!"

"The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires."

"There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one's own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won't these faults have to be broken?"

"By one fact, the Self [Soul] is the creator [of new karma]. From another fact, the Self [Soul] is not the creator."

"Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!"

"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."
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