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Nilakanta Sri Ram or Nilakantha Sri Ram (N. Sri Ram) (* 15 December 1889 in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India; died 8 April 1973 in Adyar, India) was a freemason, theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar during twenty years.

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There is no wisdom without love.

Love, Wisdom, Without Love

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Spiritual, Perfection, Mind, Facts

Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he draws those ideas, his intuitions, which unify his perceptions of the external world instantaneously with a value which is qualitative and not quantitative, and which he embodies in the works of his culture - those achievements which belong not only to one particular time but to all times, and mark the path of his upward progress.

Ideas, Instantaneously, Man, Men, Perception, Qualitative

Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

Spiritual, Would Be, Resistance, Mount, Let, Difficulties

What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.

Keeps, Playing, Round, Spiritual, Three, World

No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.

Spiritual, Humanity, Divinity, Individual, Fail

Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his or her sphere, a delicate consideration of others, a control that gives rise to peace, and cessation from every thought of cruelty and lust.

Consideration, Giving, Love, Mean, Spiritual, Stepped

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

Knowledge, Lying, Make, Use, Wisdom

Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there.

Spiritual, Lying, Heart, True, Delve

He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts.

Wise, Spiritual, Men, Man, Guides, Perfect

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

Spiritual, Children, Integrity, Child, Product

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

Fulfillment, Man, Men, Perfection, Seeks, Spiritual

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

Spiritual, Opposites, Matter, Action, Study

We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident.

Circumstance, Effect, Incentives, Incidents, Inner, Spiritual

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.

Attended, Call, Inflation, Spiritual, Willing

The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others

Love Is, Grace, Development, Love, Oneself

Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need.

Aim, Centered, Flow, Needs, Object, Spiritual

What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.

Fundamentally, Giving, Inner Peace, Needs, Peace, World

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