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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Sri Aurobindo

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True 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
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves

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