* Poise, self-control, forbearance, discrimination, steadiness in one’s dharma, truthfulness, compassion, memory of the past, contentment with what is available, giving of alms, dispassion, faith in God, feeling of shame for ill-conduct, simplicity, humility, absorption etc are the characteristics of SATTVA. (Bhagavad Gita)
* Knowledge leads to unity; ignorance to diversity.
* If you meditate on an ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
* A broomstick is itself unclean, but it cleans dirty places.
* Unless a man is simple, he cannot realize God.
* As long as the baby plays with the toy and forgets everything else, its mother looks after her cooking and other household duties; but when the baby throws away the toy and cries, then the mother puts down the rice-pot and comes to the baby. (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
* It is desirable to reduce the number of one’s duties and entanglements.
* The watchword of all well-being is not I, but thou. Who cares whether there is a heaven or hell, who cares if there is a soul or not? Here is the world and it is full of misery. Go out into it as Buddha did, and struggle to lessen it or die in the attempt. Forget yourselves, this is the first lesson to be learn, whether you are a theist or an atheist, whether you are an agnostic or a Vedantist, a Christian or a Mohammedan. (Swami Vivekananda)
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