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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
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
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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
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
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

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

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