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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
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
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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 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
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
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
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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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Body Determination Live Nature
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

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