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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

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
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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
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
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
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
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
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
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

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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