"That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me -- with such a one I am in love."

Bhagavad Gita on hatred
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"For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death."

Bhagavad Gita on honor
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"The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise."

Bhagavad Gita on ignorance
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"Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering."

Bhagavad Gita on infinity
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"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

Bhagavad Gita on knowledge
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"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons."

Bhagavad Gita on appearance
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"Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering."

Bhagavad Gita on appreciation
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"Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature."

Bhagavad Gita on army and navy
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"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."

Bhagavad Gita on mediation
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"Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation."

Bhagavad Gita on meditation
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"Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart."

Bhagavad Gita on meditation
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"The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?"

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them."

Bhagavad Gita on nature
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"The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path."

Bhagavad Gita on obstacles
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"Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self."

Bhagavad Gita on patience
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"For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do."

Bhagavad Gita on attachment
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"To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same."

Bhagavad Gita on possessions
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"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita on reality
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"As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within."

Bhagavad Gita on self discovery
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"Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire."

Bhagavad Gita on selfishness
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"Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service."

Bhagavad Gita on service
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"Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below."

Bhagavad Gita on spirituality
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"O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind."

Bhagavad Gita on spirituality
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"Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature."

Bhagavad Gita on action
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"The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable."

Bhagavad Gita on body
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"There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes."

Bhagavad Gita on change
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"Action should culminate in wisdom."

Bhagavad Gita on wisdom
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"When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self."

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"The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart."

Bhagavad Gita on wisdom
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"What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men."

Bhagavad Gita on work
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"Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will."

Bhagavad Gita on choice
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"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."

Bhagavad Gita on passion
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"A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe."

Bhagavad Gita on conflict
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"But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me."

Bhagavad Gita on consciousness
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"It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger."

Bhagavad Gita on anger
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"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable."

Bhagavad Gita on death
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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