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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.

Sri Aurobindo

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
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
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
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
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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 inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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 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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