True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
SRI AUROBINDOThere is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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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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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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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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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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