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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
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
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
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
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

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

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