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"You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."

"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."

"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."

"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."

"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."

"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."

"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."

"When someone picks the Gnani Purush's [the enlightened one's] 'pocket', how does the Gnani Purush'' look at it? "Very well! This amount is now credited to my account! Money spent for the home is money down the drain. How can anyone 'see' this [fact] with the narrow inner intent of 'mine and yours'? With an all encompassing [broader] intent, one will see 'as it is', that is called 'Gnan' [Knowledge]."

"You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others."

"All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen."
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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied."

"There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view, there's none if we pretend it's not there."
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