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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.

Sri Aurobindo

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
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
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 only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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
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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge 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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem

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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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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