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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

Sri Aurobindo

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul

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