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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Sri Aurobindo

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
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
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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow

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