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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Sri Aurobindo

Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
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
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
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
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
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
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
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

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