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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

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Mindset Progress Seek
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDO

Principle Teaching True
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
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
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
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
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking

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