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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Sri Aurobindo

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
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
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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
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
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

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