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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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