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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

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
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
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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Identity Play True Universe
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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 anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
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

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

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