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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.

Sri Aurobindo

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
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
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
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
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World

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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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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