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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

Sri Aurobindo

Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

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