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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.

Sri Aurobindo

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
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
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
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue

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