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“Love and hate both are attachments. If you love apple and hate orange, life will give you such a hybrid of apple and orange that you will neither be able to eat it nor throw it. So, don’t let your dislikes turn into hate.”

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“Opposite of love is attachment, not hate. Hate is an explicit form of attachment. Love takes you towards freedom, attachment binds you more and more.”

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“A chemical may react with some chemicals and remain indifferent to others. Similarly we get attached to some people (positively or negatively) and remain indifferent to others. Attachment is not love. Love makes you realize that you are something more than an organism, more than a body-mind.”

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“If you need to tell lies to hide something from someone, it’s attachment, not love. By telling lies you are creating a different world in which events have happened as per your lies. That’s why lies tear apart two souls. Attachment makes you lie because it only cares for body-mind, not soul.”

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“Turn off the sound and watch a slap scene in a movie. Even if the gap between hand and check remains one feet, sound effect makes you feel that slap is real. When the picture is incomplete, your mind fills in your own colours in the gaps. If you are madly in love with someone, you will believe their most absurd lies. If you hate someone, you won’t even believe absolute truths told by them.”

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“The light of soul shines through eyes that shed tears of compassion.”

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“On this giant theatre stage, everybody is in character. There are just characters interacting with characters to enact stories. You will rarely see a bare soul. Even monks are just playing holy characters.”

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“Companies, entertainers, content creators, politicians, preachers ... Everybody is squeezing you in the name of your family. Don't run away from your responsibilities but you should seek eternal freedom and not waste your life in gratifying some ghosts that are pretending to be your family members and holding you hostage.”

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“Seeing God is as difficult as seeing the white cinema screen when a 3D movie is playing on it.”

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“Life is a journey of self-discovery. Mirror only shows us our outer appearance. People and situations show us inner layers of our being.”

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“A Guru and disciple were passing through a street where they saw a cow being harassed by barking dogs. Disciple said, "What has happened to this world? Peace loving people are being harassed by noisy people." Guru said, "Both cow and dogs are behaving as per their nature. I would worry about the world when cow also starts behaving like dogs in reaction.”

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“Everybody is trying to make their journey till death comfortable. In the process they are missing the moments that can open the door to immortality.”

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“Don't hesitate to quit a path just because you have invested your time and energy on it. Nothing goes waste. Your investment is safe in your Karmic account.”

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“Born as a presence, trained as a person, you are. Forget your training, you will, in one magical moment of love.”

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“Living in the present moment or "here and now" is the most rewarding job in the world. You get rewarded with magical experiences.”

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“As a tourist, you look at a century old building with so much wonder. But your house seems ordinary to you. Widen your perception. The stones in your house came from ancient rocks. Metals came from Earth's womb. Earth, water, air, light... Everything is ancient... as old as Time.”

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“Be it sorrow or happiness, you get as much as you can handle.”

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“If and when they change, I will change my opinion about them." No. If you want them to change, first you have to soften your opinions about them.”

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“Imagine an absolute vacuum in which nothing exists. Then air, water, trees, mountains, clouds, thoughts and all other forms of matter and energy appear inside it. Mind can merely imagine that vacuum. But you can feel it. Because you're that vacuum.”

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“People have power over you because you're trying to prove yourself to them. Make tea and sip. Cook food and eat. Have a nice bath and sound sleep. You are not here to prove anything to anyone. You are the child of the universe .”

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“Your eyes are like two small glass windows. Who is sitting inside and looking through them?”

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“He can use even your shortcomings to your advantage. Surrender to Him.”

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“You have no idea how much violence you are doing to yourself in trying to prove yourself to others.”

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“A glass of water is holding water. But empty glass is not holding emptiness. Neither emptiness is holding the glass. Both are free and yet they are into each other. This is divine love. No attachment, only pure love.”

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“Your mind's hunger is many times more than body's hunger. Do fasting of mind. On the day of fast, don't consume any content through TV and internet. Instead feel the air around you, hear all the subtle sounds coming to you, observe the life throbbing in your body and so on.”

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“Where there are people, there is a drama, a story, a circus. It doesn't matter if they are in a corporate office or a spiritual group.”

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“Anything that occupies your mind is your occupation. For some people quarreling is an occupation. They fear losing it more than a job-goer fears losing job. Because emptiness of mind is scarier than emptiness of stomach.”

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“You were born as a butterfly in the cobweb of society. This cobweb converts butterflies into spiders. Those who don't get converted feel stuck in it.”

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“How satisfying it is to see a chef at work! Adding a bit of this, bit of that! If you do all little things with full awareness, you will also feel like a chef enjoying the process of cooking.”

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“You don't react to the sounds coming from waves of water. Then why do you react to the sounds coming from waves of five elements (human beings)?”

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“Service is all about compassion and healing. Activism is all about glorifying the wounds and keeping them unhealed.”

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“All good warriors are seekers of truth. They want to live in a peaceful corner. But war comes to them wherever they go. Since they are blessed with the power of destruction, people keep coming to them to get destructed.”

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“Spiritual experiences happen at soul level and they're very positive and powerful. When similar experiences happen at mind level, they are called mental sickness because they're very negative and harmful.”

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“I wish I could communicate with you. But your mind stands like a wall between us. Once I melt this wall with my words, we will communicate in silence for eternity.”

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“For the body, mind is that annoying boss who just never shuts up. He will shut up only when his boss, the soul, awakens and gives him a silent look.”

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“You were a bare rock. Someone hammered and took a piece out of you. You can either cry about it or let me chisel some more pieces out of you and sculpt you into a divine form.”

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“Everything happening inside and outside you is part of the spiritual process that will ultimately transform you.”

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“You see someone and think, 'What a perfect life they have." But that's your perspective. From their perspective, their life is a mess and someone else's life is perfect. So everybody is running. What a goddamn circus!”

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“The ocean wants to remain calm and peaceful. But the moon causes tides on its surface. Should He go and fight the moon? Or He should dwell deep within itself where He is always calm?”

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“The so-called bad people have a crucial role to play in your spiritual journey. If you keep complaining why there is evil in the world, you are refusing to move forward in your journey. Forgive, detach and move forward. The supreme power is waiting for you on top of the mountain of awareness.”

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“If you take spirituality/religion as a classroom, the syllabus is infinite. There is no end to symbolism, concepts, explanations, definitions. But you have to let go of all this if you wish to experience that which can't be symbolized, conceptualized, explained or defined.”

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“Conviction and clarity are opposite. When your soul is fully asleep, you've full conviction of mind. When your soul is fully awakened, you've full clarity of mind. In-between you've dilemma.”

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“People often think, "The day I become free from everything, I will take the spiritual path." That day never comes in their life. First take the spiritual path. Then and only then you will become free from everything one by one.”

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“A princess liked the sour taste of raw mangoes. She was very happy to find a tree laden with raw mangoes. But soon mangoes became ripe. She became very sad. She started blaming the tree and the gods for her sorrow.”

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“Displace app icons on your phone. Change your browser. You will realize how you are being compulsively drawn to some websites and apps. People before phones were not saints either. Phone is just an extension of mind. It's the mind which is controlling you (soul) .”

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“The villains in your life are shadows of your own psyche. If you are trying to chase away your shadow, you are moving away from light.”

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“Kindness often comes from a guilt-ridden mind, compassion comes from an aware soul. Kindness is selective, compassion is for all. For example, kind people often take care of dogs and cats but create nuisance for their fellow human beings. They often believe in a world without borders but become a tool in the hands of one country to harm another country.”

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“If you are obsessed with a social issue, you carry a deep wound from your past. Thank you for your service to society, but what are you doing to heal yourself? Society lives in the mind. If you heal your inner wounds, your outer world will also clean up. If you don't, you'll become part of toxic groups and rabid activism.”

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“Oneness has to be realized, not created. Those who try to create oneness in the world end up creating one more group, one more sect, one more division.”

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“When a wound stays too long on your psyche, it becomes an integral part of your identity. Then you want to get rid of the pain but not the wound. Such a wound allows you to play victim and gain sympathy but deprives you of healthy forms of love. It allows you to outrage and feel powerful but deprives you of real power.”

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