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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
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
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work

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