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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

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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
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
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
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
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
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
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known

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