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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Sri Aurobindo

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual

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