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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Sri Aurobindo

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
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 practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
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
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man 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 principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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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Beyond God Life Spirit

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

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