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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.

Sri Aurobindo

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDO

Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

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 mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
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.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
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
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Knowledge Sleep

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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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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