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

Sri Aurobindo

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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
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
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
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings

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