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

Sri Aurobindo

The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
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
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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
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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
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
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
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
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

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