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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

Sri Aurobindo

There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
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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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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 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
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
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
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
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
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.
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Fall God Path Spiritual

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