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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Sri Aurobindo

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
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
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
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

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

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