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

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
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
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 all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Identity Play True Universe
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
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
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual

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