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

Sri Aurobindo

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
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
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings

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