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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

Sri Aurobindo

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Identity Play True Universe
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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

Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

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