"If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid."

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Source : Sister Nivedita (2016). “Swamiji and His Message”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Sister Nivedita

#Struggle Quotes #Reality Quotes #Realization Quotes

“You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.”
“I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.”
“Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.”
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.”

Source : Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.
“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”
“For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.”

Source : Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf
“No, I never ever considered myself attractive.”
“I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.”

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