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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

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
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Mindset Progress Seek
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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Consciousness Mindset Play 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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
SRI AUROBINDO

Choice Death Imitation Success
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

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