

“This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.”
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work”
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist

“If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand.”
― Meditation and Its Methods
― Meditation and Its Methods

“I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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