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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

Sri Aurobindo

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
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
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

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