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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
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
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
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
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
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Identity Play True Universe
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

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