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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
[ 31 ] No object is in itself endowed with the quality of being dear or hateful. Our own disposition for loving or hating makes one object, dear to us and another hateful. This is why one and the same object so often appears dear to us and hateful to someone else.
[ 32 ] Harness thy mind to the chariot called 'Aversion from the World', take up the arms ‘Discretion', 'Modesty' and the like, and open the fight against 'Wrath', and other internal enemies !
( 33 ) In his silken quilts, a Universal Emperor, lord of all luxury and enjoyments, cannot find that exquisite happiness which the Monk, who, lean and emaciated as he is himself, has emaciated his love and hatred too, experiences on his bed of straw.
[ 34 ] Religious actions are fertile only if combined with knowledge, and religious knowledge is fertile only if combined with actions.
[ 35 ] If we cannot grasp the truth, it is because a layer of prejudice covers our Inner Self. Therefore, it is necessary first of all to do away with prejudice.
[ 36 ] He who subdues desire is a true ascetic, a true sage and, though living in the world, still aloof from it in every respect.
[ 37 ] Unless coupled with Forbearance, all the remaining virtues are as useless as zeroes isolated from the other figures.
[ 38 ] Only he who renounces gold and women renounces truly, and only he is worthy of reverence.
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