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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Sri Aurobindo

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
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
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
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
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
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence

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