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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Sri Aurobindo

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
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
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual

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