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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

Sri Aurobindo

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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
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
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
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
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
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
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

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