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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

Sri Aurobindo

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
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
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
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World

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