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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

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
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
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
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
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing

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