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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
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
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work

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