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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

Sri Aurobindo

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
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
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
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
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
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
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
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
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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

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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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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