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

Sri Aurobindo

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
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
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
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Delight God Learning Secret
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fate Greatness Man Soul

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