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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

Sri Aurobindo

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
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
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
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
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent

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