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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 highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
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
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
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 only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
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
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth

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