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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Sri Aurobindo

Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fall God Path Spiritual
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDO

Audience Joy Love Music Performance
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Knowledge Sleep

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