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Try to make others happy, and don’t despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

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Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
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Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
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Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
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God Goodness Heart Life Time
Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.
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Meaning Money Opportunity Society
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
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Compassion Feeling Pain Suffering
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
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Greatness Past Sage Satisfaction Spirituality Yourself
If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won’t let us down.
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Best Friendship Nature Ourselves Service
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
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Greatness Happiness Infinite Ourselves Reflection Truth Understand
Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
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Care Happiness Intelligence Mindset Object Practice Solitude
“Is God a Man or a Woman ?” The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.
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Gender God Man Question Woman
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person’s sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.
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Hands Herself Right Wound
Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?
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Choice Cry Laughter Time
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Accomplishment Action Death Greatness Performance Right
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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Learning Nature Object Ourselves Teaching
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
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Action Harmony Man Thinking World

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