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"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.

— Helena Blavatsky

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Maitreya is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar of the Brahmins - the last Messiah who will come at the culmination of the Great Cycle.

Where two women meet, there a market springs; where three congregate, a bazaar is opened; and where seven talk, there begins a fair.

Gems from the East (1890)

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

There is no religion higher than truth.

The rabble has been the same in all ages. Materialism has been, and will ever be blind to spiritual truths.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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