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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Sri Aurobindo

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
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
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
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
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
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
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason

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