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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Sri Aurobindo

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.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
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
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

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