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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
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
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
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
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
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
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
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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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability

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