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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

Sri Aurobindo

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
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
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
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
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself

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