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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Sri Aurobindo

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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 only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
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
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
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself

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