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The God in us is the sole reality; all else, as beautifully and poetically expressed by the East, is but the "Play of the Great Mother of the World."...There is no God, or Gods, who was not at some time a man.

— Helena Roerich

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The most terrible thing is to develop in a child selfishness and stinginess, as these vices will limit the growth of a child's mind.

Woman—mother and wife—witness of the development of man's genius, can appreciate the great significance of the culture of thought and knowledge.

Prana is the very same psychic energy in its quality of vital force, which is diffused everywhere and is absorbed by man chiefly through breathing.

Selfishness is the most terrible scourge of humanity, the source of destruction, and, first of all, self-destruction.

Make haste to learn how to love and appreciate each other. But nothing requires such delicate and attentive care as love!

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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