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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
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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Development Divine Help Intellectual
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge 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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
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
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

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