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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Sri Aurobindo

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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 quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
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
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
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
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
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
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

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