As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.
If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.
Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.
Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.
Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart – we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.
In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.
In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?
Life in this world is an attempt to see God.
Never even attempt to disturb anyone’s tendencies.
Shri Krishna says: “Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another.”
The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil – doers, only adds to the evil in the world.
Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.