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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

Sri Aurobindo

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
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
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
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
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
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
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
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

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