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Sri Aurobindo

Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom

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