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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

Sri Aurobindo

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
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
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

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