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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.

Sri Aurobindo

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
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
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
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
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
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 Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul

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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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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