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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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
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
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
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave

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