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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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 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
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
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
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
SRI AUROBINDO

Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDO

Condition Peace Stability

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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