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

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
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
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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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself

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

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