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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

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
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
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
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
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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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
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
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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

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