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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

Sri Aurobindo

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering

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