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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
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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Age Creativity Herself Human People
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
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
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
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
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary

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