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

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
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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
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
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle

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