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" A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. "

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" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "

" It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. "

" Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. "

" Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities. "

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" The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. "

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" I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. "

" Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. "

" Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. "

" The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. "

" The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. "

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" People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. "

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