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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Sri Aurobindo

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
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
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
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.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
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
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
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 yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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

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