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Purify the mind through selfless service. Votes: 3

Mata Amritanandamayi

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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize. Votes: 3

Sivananda

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charity Purify your heart and makes you lion. Votes: 3

Kishore Bansal

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Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. Votes: 3

Rumi

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Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence. Votes: 3

Rumi

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Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest. Votes: 3

Ann M. Dibb

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Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. Votes: 3

Rita Zahara

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Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind. Votes: 3

Mineko Iwasaki

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Dear God, help us to be a living example of being Christ-centered. Purify the areas in our lives where we allowed the world and enemy to gain access. Please direct us into authentic truth so that all may see You in us. Votes: 3

Dana Arcuri

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Votes: 1

Christian Nestell Bovee

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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. Votes: 1

Emma Goldman

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Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. Votes: 1

John O. Brennan

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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Votes: 1

Pope John Paul II

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Votes: 1

Washington Irving

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Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. Votes: 1

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. Votes: 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. Votes: 1

Jean Paul

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Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced. Votes: 1

Eliot Engel

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Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. Votes: 1

Eliza Farnham

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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. Votes: 1

Gore Vidal

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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. Votes: 1

Smedley Butler

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. Votes: 1

John Keats

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All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. Votes: 1

Virchand Gandhi

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Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. Votes: 1

Jennifer Granholm

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If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. Votes: 1

James E. Faust

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Storms purify the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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If you purify the pond, the lilies die Votes: 0

William Stafford

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams. Votes: 0

Amos Bronson Alcott

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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I feel the problems I have are meant to purify me. Votes: 0

Henri Nouwen

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Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue. Votes: 0

Abu Nu`aym

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Jesus, Food of strong souls, strengthen me, purify me, make me godlike Votes: 0

Gemma Galgani

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Be kind. Only feelings of kindness can purify our ever judgemental minds. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people. Votes: 0

Pol Pot

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[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water. Votes: 0

Ignatius of Antioch

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If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins. Votes: 0

Joseph Alleine

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The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions. Votes: 0

Raheel Farooq

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Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires Votes: 0

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Andrew Michael Ramsay

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The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind. Votes: 0

Mata Amritanandamayi

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To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life. Votes: 0

Radhanath Swami

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Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee. Votes: 0

Van Morrison

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Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive. Votes: 0

David Wolfe

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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind. Votes: 0

Sathya Sai Baba

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The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste. Votes: 0

Moses Hadas

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Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. Votes: 0

Iris Murdoch

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Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time. Votes: 0

Mata Amritanandamayi

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Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify. Votes: 0

Yellow Tanabe

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There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless. Votes: 0

James E. Faust

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By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power. Votes: 0

Denis Waitley

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It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart. Votes: 0

William Wilberforce

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Clear and purify your heart , because its the only thing you get respect , you feel emotions , you are known and most important you live !! Votes: 0

Hani.N

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The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?. Votes: 0

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside. Votes: 0

Thomas Yellowtail

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Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas. Votes: 0

Nhat Hanh

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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream. Votes: 0

Joseph Pilates

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It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos. Votes: 0

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame. Votes: 0

Nikos Kazantzakis

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As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin. Votes: 0

Poemen

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By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself. Votes: 0

Horace Bushnell

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The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD. Votes: 0

Laurence Sterne

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It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do. Votes: 0

M. Russell Ballard

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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit. Votes: 0

Paul Caponigro

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Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for them; his Spirit is able to purify and change their hearts. Votes: 0

George Whitefield

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Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons. Votes: 0

Lance Conrad

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The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14). Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character. Votes: 0

Keshub Chandra Sen

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It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves. Votes: 0

David Wolfe

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I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls. Votes: 0

Louise Erdrich

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Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings. Votes: 0

Sharon Gannon

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Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche. Votes: 0

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us. Votes: 0

A. Theodore Tuttle

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Oscar Wilde

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Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

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You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.

John Campbell Shairp

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An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.

Jerry Bridges

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It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

Felix Adler

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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

Douglas Preston

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We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

Mikhail Bakunin

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Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

Francois Fenelon

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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

James Russell Lowell

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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

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All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the proper guidelines to cleanse, purify, and prevent disease, but also uplift oneself into a realm of awareness previously unknown.

Vasant Lad

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