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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

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
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
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
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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 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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul

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.

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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.

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