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• You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisatio n with the help of a dynamic will.

  Sivananda

  Thinking, Self, Helping

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• Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Humility, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Morality, Action

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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• Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Long, Giving

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2003). “The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”

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• Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Humility, Buddhism

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• You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Gains, Certain

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• Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mind

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• The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Empowering, Forever, Finals

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• Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Enlightenment, Action

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• You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Solitude, Association

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• Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Believe, Blessing, Divine Guidance

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2009). “Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.6, Penguin

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• Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

  Tryon Edwards

  Regret, Apology, Past

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.240

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Order, Growth, Action

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.71, Penguin

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• A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Character, Heart, Soul

  Mary Baker Eddy (1967). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving Up, Real

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• The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Miracle, Done

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• The best politics is right action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Politics, Action

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• Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Real, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

  Aldo Leopold

  Yield, Doe, Pay

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.346, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sorry, Eye, Different

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• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

  David Allen

  Taken, Done, Outcomes

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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• Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Curves, Action, Elegance

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.233, Spectra

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• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friendship, Giving, Advice

  Phillips Brooks (1890). “Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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