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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.

Sri Aurobindo

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Art Himself Nature Transcendence
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
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

Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Imagination Laughter Listening People

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