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er and mind are not separate, they are aspects of one energy. Look at the mind as a function of matter and you have science; look at matter as the product of the mind and you have religion.

So many gods, so many creeds;So many paths that wind and wind,While just the art of being kindIs all the sad world needs.

The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament or the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practises to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and on one’s neighbor in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn’t the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from the outside.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do. We do not want that. We may quarrel with men about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit.

I tried to find Him on the Christian cross,but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the moutains and in the valleys but neither in the hights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond thair under-standing. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that i saw him; he was nowhere else to be found.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Of the forces which are imperceptible forces, none is greater than that of change … all things are ever in the state of change … therefore the I of the past is no longer the I of today.