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"People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God."

"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
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"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."

"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."

"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings."

"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."

"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food."

"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars."

"If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak."

"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."

"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
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