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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
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
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
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
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

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