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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.

Sri Aurobindo

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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
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
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
SRI AUROBINDO

Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate 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
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World

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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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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