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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.

Sri Aurobindo

Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
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
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
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
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
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
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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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
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
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
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

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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