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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
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
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth

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