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

Sri Aurobindo

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
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
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
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
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

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